The ethnography of communication : an introduction /

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Author / Creator:Saville-Troike, Muriel, 1936-
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
Description:ix, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Language in society ; 3
Language in society (Oxford, England) ; 3.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4804658
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ISBN:0631228411 (alk. paper)
063122842X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-316) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Scope and Focus
  • Method
  • Historical Background
  • Significance
  • Organization of the Book
  • 2. Basic Terms, Concepts, and Issues
  • Patterns of Communication
  • Communicative Functions
  • Speech Community
  • Communicative Competence
  • The Competence of Incompetence
  • Units of Analysis
  • Categories of Talk
  • Language and Culture
  • Social Structure and Ideology
  • Routines and Rituals
  • Universals and Inequalities
  • 3. Varieties of Language
  • Language Choice
  • Diglossia and Dinomia
  • Code-Switching and Style-Shifting
  • Code-Markers
  • Varieties Associated with Setting
  • Varieties Associated with Activity Domain
  • Varieties Associated with Region
  • Varieties Associated with Ethnicity
  • Varieties Associated with Social Class, Status, and Role
  • Varieties Associated with Role-Relationships
  • Varieties Associated with Sex
  • Varieties Associated with Age
  • Varieties Associated with Personality States and 'Abnormal' Speech
  • Non-Native Varieties
  • 4. The Analysis of Communicative Events
  • Relationship of Ethnographer and Speech Community
  • Types o f Data
  • Survey of Data Collection and Analytic Procedures
  • Identification of Communicative Events
  • Components of Communication
  • Relationship among Components
  • Elicitation within a Frame
  • Analysis of Interaction
  • Sample Analyses of Communicative Events
  • Further Illustrations of Ethnographic Analysis
  • 5. Contrasts in Patterns of Communication
  • Comparative Rhetoric
  • Historical Development
  • Ethnographic Perspective
  • Establishing Validity
  • Situated Event Analysis
  • Other Data Collection and Analytic Procedures
  • Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Concepts of 'Face'
  • Constructing an Unseen Face
  • 6. Attitudes toward Communicative Performance
  • Methodology
  • Attitudes Toward Language and Language Skills
  • Attitudes Toward Languages and Varieties
  • Stereotyping
  • Appropriateness
  • Language and Identity
  • Language Maintenance, Shift, and Spread
  • Taboos and Euphemisms
  • 7. Acquisition of Communicative Competence
  • Early Linguistic Development
  • Social Interaction
  • Language and Enculturation
  • Definition of Stages and Roles
  • Communicative Strategies
  • Formulaic Expressions
  • Nonverbal Communication
  • Peer Influence and Extended Acquisition
  • Speech Play
  • Formal Education
  • Multilingual Contexts
  • Children's Beliefs about Language
  • 8. Politeness, Power, and Politics
  • Language and Politics
  • Language and Social Theories
  • Linguistic Signs of Power
  • Linguistic Performances of Power
  • Linguistic Resistance and Rebellion
  • Language Planning
  • Responsibilities and Limitations
  • 9. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index of Languages
  • General Index