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Ethnography of Communication An Introduction

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ISBN-10: 063122842X

ISBN-13: 9780631228424

Edition: 3rd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Muriel Saville-Troike

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The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures. Presents the essential terms and concepts introduced and developed by Dell Hymes and others and surveys the most important findings and applications of their work. Draws on insights from social anthropology and psycholinguistics in investigating the patterning of communicative behavior in specific cultural settings. Includes two completely new chapters on contrasts in patterns of communication and on politeness, power, and politics. Incorporates a broad range of examples and illustrations from many languages…    
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Book details

List price: $74.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/20/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.02" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Introduction
Scope and Focus
Method
Historical Background
Significance
Organization of the Book
Basic Terms, Concepts, and Issues
Patterns of Communication
Communicative Functions
Speech Community
Communicative Competence
The Competence of Incompetence
Units of Analysis
Categories of Talk
Language and Culture
Social Structure and Ideology
Routines and Rituals
Universals and Inequalities
Varieties of Language
Language Choice
Diglossia and Dinomia
Code-Switching and Style-Shifting
Code-Markers
Varieties Associated with Setting
Varieties Associated with Activity Domain
Varieties Associated with Region
Varieties Associated with Ethnicity
Varieties Associated with Social Class, Status, and Role
Varieties Associated with Role-Relationships
Varieties Associated with Sex
Varieties Associated with Age
Varieties Associated with Personality States and 'Abnormal' Speech
Non-Native Varieties
The Analysis of Communicative Events
Relationship of Ethnographer and Speech Community
Types o f Data
Survey of Data Collection and Analytic Procedures
Identification of Communicative Events
Components of Communication
Relationship among Components
Elicitation within a Frame
Analysis of Interaction
Sample Analyses of Communicative Events
Further Illustrations of Ethnographic Analysis
Contrasts in Patterns of Communication
Comparative Rhetoric
Historical Development
Ethnographic Perspective
Establishing Validity
Situated Event Analysis
Other Data Collection and Analytic Procedures
Cross-Cultural Communication
Concepts of 'Face'
Constructing an Unseen Face
Attitudes toward Communicative Performance
Methodology
Attitudes Toward Language and Language Skills
Attitudes Toward Languages and Varieties
Stereotyping
Appropriateness
Language and Identity
Language Maintenance, Shift, and Spread
Taboos and Euphemisms
Acquisition of Communicative Competence
Early Linguistic Development
Social Interaction
Language and Enculturation
Definition of Stages and Roles
Communicative Strategies
Formulaic Expressions
Nonverbal Communication
Peer Influence and Extended Acquisition
Speech Play
Formal Education
Multilingual Contexts
Children's Beliefs about Language
Politeness, Power, and Politics
Language and Politics
Language and Social Theories
Linguistic Signs of Power
Linguistic Performances of Power
Linguistic Resistance and Rebellion
Language Planning
Responsibilities and Limitations
Conclusion
References
Index of Languages
General Index