A cultural approach to interpersonal communication : essential readings / edited by Leila Monaghan & Jane E. Goodman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- 2. Culture blends / Michael Agar -- 3. Five principles / Richard Bauman -- 4. Thick description : toward an interpretive theory of culture / Clifford Geertz -- 5. Winking as social business / Jane E. Goodman -- 6. Speaking of ethnography / Leila Monaghan -- 7. The emergent quality of performance / Richard Bauman -- 8. Poetics, play, process, and power : the performative turn in anthropology / Dwight Conquergood -- 9. Narrative lessons / Elinor Ochs -- 10. Greetings in the desert / Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Allen D. Grimshaw and Charles S. Bird -- 11. Let your words be few : symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers / Richard Bauman -- 12. "To give up on words": silence in Western Apache culture / Keith Basso -- 13. What we need is communication: "communication" as a cultural category in some American speech / Tamar Katriel and Gerry Philipsen -- 14. Writing Cousin Joe : choice and control over orthographic representation in a Blues singer's autobiography / Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer -- 15. Talking culture : ethnography and conversation analysis / Michael Moerman -- 16. The triangle of linguistic structure / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- 17. The grammar of politics and the politics of grammar : from Bangladesh to the United States / James Wilce -- 18. Conversations : the link between words and the world / Leila Monaghan -- 19. Conversational signals and devices / Deborah Tannen -- 20. A cultural approach to male - female miscommunication / Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker -- 21. Preface and "put down that paper and talk to me!" : rapport-talk and report-talk / Deborah Tannen -- 22. Swearing / Lars Andersson and Peter Trudgill -- 23. Swearing as a function of gender in the language of Midwestern American college students / Thomas E. Murray -- 24. Speech communities / R. A. Hudson -- 25. Encounters / Erving Goffman -- 26. Symbols of category membership / Penelope Eckert -- 27. Word up : social meanings of slang in California youth culture / Mary Bucholtz -- 28. Odd girl out : the hidden culture of aggression in girls / Rachel Simmons -- 29. Sporting formulae in New Zealand English : two models of male solidarity / Koenraad Kuiper -- 30. Inner-city teens and face-work : avoiding violence and maintaining honor / Robert Garot -- 31. Speech play / John Holmes McDowell -- 32. "If I'm lyin, I'm flyin" : the game of insult in black language / Geneva Smitherman -- 33. Language and the power of men / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- 34. Mayor Daley's council speech : a cultural analysis / Gerry Philipsen -- 35. Linguistic ideology and praxis in US law school classrooms / Elizabeth Mertz -- 36. Participant structures and communicative competence : Warm Springs children in community and classroom / Susan U. Philips -- 37. Footing / Erving Goffman -- 38. "An association for the 21st century" : performance and social change among Berbers in Paris / Jane E. Goodman -- 39. Signing / Leila Monaghan -- 40. Variation in sign languages / Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan -- 41. The founding of two deaf churches : the interplay of deaf and Christian identities / Leila Monaghan -- 42. Attacking the bureaucratic language of car sales: a case study of a car sales event / Roger W. Shuy.

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