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9780631149873

Directions in Sociolinguistics The Ethnography of Communication

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631149873

  • ISBN10:

    0631149872

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-01-08
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

Directions in Sociolinguistics is a now classic collection of pioneering essays by leading sociolinguists. It is published here for the first time in paperback and incorporates an extensive new bibliography.

Author Biography

John J. Gumpertz is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dell Hymes is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Plan of the Book
Ethnographic Description and Explanation
Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life
Culture Patterning of Speech Behavior in Burundi
""Struck by Speech"": The Yakan Concept of Litigation
The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes
Signifying and Marking: Two Afro-American Speech Acts
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