Cultural Approach To Interpersonal Comm Book

Notes on Contributors.

Preface for Instructors.

Editors’ Acknowledgments.

Acknowledgments to Sources.

Introduction: Jane E. Goodman and Leila Monaghan.

Part I: Ethnographer’s Toolkit.

Introduction.

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.

Part II: Ethnography of Talk: From Language Form to Social Solidarity.

Introduction.

16. The Triangle of Linguistic Structure: Robin Tolmach Lakoff.

17. The Grammar of Politics and thePolitics 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.

Part III: Communication and Social Groups: The Work of Belonging.

Introduction.

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.

Part IV: Interpersonal Communication in Institutional Settings: Structure and the Exercise of Power.

Introduction.

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.

Appendix I: Read This First: How to Read and Present on Complex Texts.

Appendix II: Ethnography Assignments.

Ethnography of Greetings.

Ethnography Proposal.

Ethnography Project: Tape, Fieldnotes, and Transcript.

Ethnography Project: SPEAKING Paper.

Final Ethnography Paper.

Index