| Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bauman, Richard (Editor), Sherzer, Joel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0511611811 ISBN-13: 9780511611810 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $213.75 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 408.9 |
| Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |