A cultural approach to interpersonal communication : essential readings /
A cultural approach to interpersonal communication : essential readings /
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
- xxii, 482 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Body ritual among the Nacirema / Culture blends / Five principles / Thick description : toward an interpretive theory of culture / Winking as social business / Speaking of ethnography / The emergent quality of performance / Poetics, play, process, and power : the performative turn in anthropology / Narrative lessons / Greetings in the desert / Let your words be few : symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers / "To give up on words" : silence in western Apache culture / "What we need is communication" : "communication" as a cultural category in some American speech / Writing Cousin Joe : choice and control over orthographic representation in a blues singer's autobiography / Talking culture : ethnography and conversation analysis / The triangle of linguistic structure / The grammar of politics and the politics of grammar : from Bangladesh to the United States / Conversations : the link between words and the world / Conversational signals and devices / A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / Preface and "put down that paper and talk to me!" : rapport-talk and report-talk / Swearing / Swearing as a function of gender in the language of midwestern American college students / Speech communities / Encounters / Symbols of category membership / Word up : social meanings of slang in California youth culture / Odd girl out : the hidden culture of aggression in girls / Sporting formulae in New Zealand English : two models of male solidarity / Inner-city teens and face-work : avoiding violence and maintaining honor / Speech play / "If I'm lyin, I'm flyin" : the game of insult in Black language / Power and the language of men / Mayor Daley's council speech : a cultural analysis / Linguistic ideology and praxis in US law school classrooms / Participant structures and communicative competence : Warm Springs children in community and classroom / Footing / "An association for the 21st century" : performance and social change among Berbers in Paris / Signing / Variation in sign languages / The founding of two deaf churches / Attacking the bureaucratic language of car sales : a case study of a car sales event / Jane E. Goodman and Leila Monaghan -- Horace Miner -- Michael Agar -- Richard Bauman -- Clifford Geertz -- Jane E. Goodman -- Leila Monaghan -- Richard Bauman -- Dwight Conquergood -- Elinor Ochs -- Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Allen D. Grimshaw, and Charles S. Bird -- Richard Bauman -- Keith Basso -- Tamar Katriel and Gerry Philipsen -- Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer -- Michael Moerman -- Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- James Wilce -- Leila Monaghan -- Deborah Tannen -- Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker -- Deborah Tannen -- Lars Andersson and Peter Trudgill -- Thomas E. Murray -- R.A. Hudson -- Erving Goffman -- Penelope Eckert -- Mary Bucholtz -- Rachel Simmons -- Koenraad Kuiper -- Robert Garot -- John Holmes McDowell -- Geneva Smitherman -- Scott Fabius Kiesling -- Gerry Philipsen -- Elizabeth Mertz -- Susan U. Philips -- Erving Goffman -- Jane E. Goodman -- Leila Monaghan -- Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan -- Leila Monaghan -- Roger W. Shuy.
This volume introduces students to the varied communicative practices of social communities in the US and beyond. It explores interpersonal interactions in a range of settings: from high school slang in California to sign language use in a deaf church.
1405125950 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405125956: £60.00 9781405125956 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405125942 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405125949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Interpersonal communication--Cross-cultural studies.
Communication and culture.
Language and culture.
302.2 / MON
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Body ritual among the Nacirema / Culture blends / Five principles / Thick description : toward an interpretive theory of culture / Winking as social business / Speaking of ethnography / The emergent quality of performance / Poetics, play, process, and power : the performative turn in anthropology / Narrative lessons / Greetings in the desert / Let your words be few : symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers / "To give up on words" : silence in western Apache culture / "What we need is communication" : "communication" as a cultural category in some American speech / Writing Cousin Joe : choice and control over orthographic representation in a blues singer's autobiography / Talking culture : ethnography and conversation analysis / The triangle of linguistic structure / The grammar of politics and the politics of grammar : from Bangladesh to the United States / Conversations : the link between words and the world / Conversational signals and devices / A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / Preface and "put down that paper and talk to me!" : rapport-talk and report-talk / Swearing / Swearing as a function of gender in the language of midwestern American college students / Speech communities / Encounters / Symbols of category membership / Word up : social meanings of slang in California youth culture / Odd girl out : the hidden culture of aggression in girls / Sporting formulae in New Zealand English : two models of male solidarity / Inner-city teens and face-work : avoiding violence and maintaining honor / Speech play / "If I'm lyin, I'm flyin" : the game of insult in Black language / Power and the language of men / Mayor Daley's council speech : a cultural analysis / Linguistic ideology and praxis in US law school classrooms / Participant structures and communicative competence : Warm Springs children in community and classroom / Footing / "An association for the 21st century" : performance and social change among Berbers in Paris / Signing / Variation in sign languages / The founding of two deaf churches / Attacking the bureaucratic language of car sales : a case study of a car sales event / Jane E. Goodman and Leila Monaghan -- Horace Miner -- Michael Agar -- Richard Bauman -- Clifford Geertz -- Jane E. Goodman -- Leila Monaghan -- Richard Bauman -- Dwight Conquergood -- Elinor Ochs -- Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Allen D. Grimshaw, and Charles S. Bird -- Richard Bauman -- Keith Basso -- Tamar Katriel and Gerry Philipsen -- Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer -- Michael Moerman -- Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- James Wilce -- Leila Monaghan -- Deborah Tannen -- Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker -- Deborah Tannen -- Lars Andersson and Peter Trudgill -- Thomas E. Murray -- R.A. Hudson -- Erving Goffman -- Penelope Eckert -- Mary Bucholtz -- Rachel Simmons -- Koenraad Kuiper -- Robert Garot -- John Holmes McDowell -- Geneva Smitherman -- Scott Fabius Kiesling -- Gerry Philipsen -- Elizabeth Mertz -- Susan U. Philips -- Erving Goffman -- Jane E. Goodman -- Leila Monaghan -- Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan -- Leila Monaghan -- Roger W. Shuy.
This volume introduces students to the varied communicative practices of social communities in the US and beyond. It explores interpersonal interactions in a range of settings: from high school slang in California to sign language use in a deaf church.
1405125950 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405125956: £60.00 9781405125956 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405125942 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405125949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Interpersonal communication--Cross-cultural studies.
Communication and culture.
Language and culture.
302.2 / MON