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Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking

Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking

Sherzer, Joel
Bauman, Richard

Paperback

Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Book 8

General ReferenceLinguisticsAnthropology

ISBN10: 0521379334
ISBN13: 9780521379335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 19 1989
Pages: 532
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.74 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
First 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.

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