Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication

Notes on ContributorsPreface for InstructorsEditors' AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments to SourcesIntroduction: Jane E. Goodman and Leila MonaghanPart I: Ethnographer's ToolkitIntroduction1. Body Ritual among the Nacirema: Horace Miner2. Culture Blends: Michael Agar3. Five Principles: Richard Bauman4. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture: Clifford Geertz5. Winking as Social Business: Jane E. Goodman6. Speaking of Ethnography: Leila Monaghan7. The Emergent Quality of Performance: Richard Bauman8. Poetics, Play, Process, and Power: The Performative Turn in Anthropology: Dwight Conquergood9. Narrative Lessons: Elinor Ochs10. Greetings in the Desert: Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Allen D. Grimshaw, and Charles S. Bird11. Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth-Century Quakers: Richard Bauman12. "To Give Up on Words": Silence in Western Apache Culture: Keith Basso13. What We Need Is Communication: "Communication" as a Cultural Category in Some American: Speech: Tamar Katriel and Gerry Philipsen14. Writing Cousin Joe: Choice and Control Over Orthographic Representation in a Blues Singer's Autobiography: Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer15. Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis: Michael MoermanPart II: Ethnography of Talk: From Language Form to Social SolidarityIntroduction16. The Triangle of Linguistic Structure: Robin Tolmach Lakoff17. The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States: James Wilce18. Conversations: The Link between Words and the World: Leila Monaghan19. Conversational Signals and Devices: Deborah Tannen20. A Cultural Approach to Male--Female Miscommunication: Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker21. Preface and "Put Down that Paper and Talk to Me!": Rapport-talk and Report-talk: Deborah Tannen22. Swearing: Lars Andersson and Peter Trudgill23. Swearing as a Function of Gender in the Language of Midwestern American College Students: Thomas E. MurrayPart III: Communication and Social Groups: The Work of BelongingIntroduction24. Speech Communities: R. A. Hudson25. Encounters: Erving Goffman26. Symbols of Category Membership: Penelope Eckert27. Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture: Mary Bucholtz28. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls: Rachel Simmons29. Sporting Formulae in New Zealand English: Two Models of Male Solidarity: Koenraad Kuiper30. Inner-City Teens and Face-Work: Avoiding Violence and Maintaining Honor: Robert Garot31. Speech Play: John Holmes McDowell32. "If I'm Lyin, I'm Flyin": The Game of Insult in Black Language: Geneva SmithermanPart IV: Interpersonal Communication in Institutional Settings: Structure and the Exercise of PowerIntroduction33. Language and the Power of Men: Scott Fabius Kiesling34. Mayor Daley's Council Speech: A Cultural Analysis: Gerry Philipsen35. Linguistic Ideology and Praxis in US Law School Classrooms: Elizabeth Mertz36. Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom: Susan U. Philips37. Footing: Erving Goffman38. "An Association for the 21st Century": Performance and Social Change among Berbers in Paris: Jane E. Goodman39. Signing: Leila Monaghan40. Variation in Sign Languages: Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan41. The Founding of Two Deaf Churches: The Interplay of Deaf and Christian Identities: Leila Monaghan42. Attacking the Bureaucratic Language of Car Sales: A Case Study of A Car Sales Event: Roger W. ShuyAppendix I: Read This First: How to Read and Present on Complex TextsAppendix II: Ethnography AssignmentsEthnography of GreetingsEthnography ProposalEthnography Project: Tape, Fieldnotes, and TranscriptEthnography Project: SPEAKING PaperFinal Ethnography PaperIndex