Explorations in the Ethnography of SpeakingFirst published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other volume has so successfully provided a broad, cross-cultural survey of the use, role, and function of language and speech in everyday life. The essays deal with: traditional societies in Native North, Middle, and South America, Africa, and Oceania; English, French, and Yiddish speaking communities in Europe and North America; Afro-American communities in North America and the Caribbean. Now reissued, the collection includes a major new Introduction by the editors that traces the subsequent development of the ethnography of speaking and indicates directions for further research. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Introduction | 15 |
Language Identity of the Colombian Vaupés Indians | 50 |
Rotinese Views of Language | 65 |
Introduction | 89 |
Contrapuntal Conversations in an Antiguan Village | 110 |
Uses of Speech by Men | 125 |
The Role of the Quaker Minister | 144 |
Black Talking on the Streets ROGER D ABRAHAMS | 240 |
Three Types of Cuna Speech | 263 |
The Concept and Varieties of Narrative Performance in East | 283 |
Introduction | 311 |
An Analysis of the Course of a Jokes Telling in Conversation | 337 |
An Analysis of Three Iroquois | 354 |
The Ethnographic Context of Some Traditional Mayan | 368 |
Chamula Canons of Style | 389 |
Introduction | 163 |
Sociolinguistic Study | 192 |
Tenejapa Tzeltal Metalinguistics | 213 |
Introduction | 417 |
The Ethnography of Writing KEITH H BASSO | 425 |
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