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Summary

Starting from the premise that interpersonal communication is inseparable from culture, this collection moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject by foregrounding the ways in which interpersonal relationships emerge through culturally mediated language practices. Proposes a new approach to interpersonal communication, based in ethnography and performance. Features ethnographic articles that are inviting and accessible to beginning students. Explores interpersonal interactions in a range of settings: from high school slang in California to sign language use in a deaf church, from Tuareg greetings in the Sahara to the language of aggression among Mississippi girls. Includes articles with detailed transcripts of conversation that students can analyze. Provides students with conceptual and practical tools to develop their own ethnographic research on language practices.

Author Biography

Leila Monaghan Leila Monaghan teaches Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Previously she was the Course Director of Interpersonal Communication in the Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. She is co-editor of the recent volumes Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities (2003) and HIV/AIDS and Deaf Communities (2006).

Jane E. Goodman is Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, where she teaches performance and ethnographic studies. She previously served as Course Director of Interpersonal Communication. Goodman is the author of Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video (2005).

Notes on Contributors
Preface for Instructors
Editors’ Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments to Sources
Introduction
Ethnographer’s Toolkit
Introduction
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Culture Blends
Five Principles
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
Winking as Social Business
Speaking of Ethnography
The Emergent Quality of Performance
Poetics, Play, Process, and Power: The Performative Turn in Anthropology
Narrative Lessons
Greetings in the Desert
Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth-Century Quakers
“To Give Up on Words”: Silence in Western Apache Culture
What We Need Is Communication: “Communication” as a Cultural Category in Some American: Speech
Writing Cousin Joe: Choice and Control Over Orthographic Representation in a Blues Singer’s Autobiography
Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis
Ethnography of Talk: From Language Form to Social Solidarity
Introduction
The Triangle of Linguistic Structure
The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States
Conversations: The Link between Words and the World
Conversational Signals and Devices
A Cultural Approach to Male--Female Miscommunication
Preface and “Put Down that Paper and Talk to Me!”: Rapport-talk and Report-talk
Swearing
Swearing as a Function of Gender in the Language of Midwestern American College Students
Communication and Social Groups: The Work of Belonging
Introduction
Speech Communities
Encounters
Symbols of Category Membership
Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Sporting Formulae in New Zealand English: Two Models of Male Solidarity
Inner-City Teens and Face-Work: Avoiding Violence and Maintaining Honor
Speech Play
“If I’m Lyin, I’m Flyin”: The Game of Insult in Black Language
Interpersonal Communication in Institutional Settings: Structure and the Exercise of Power
Introduction
Language and the Power of Men
Mayor Daley’s Council Speech: A Cultural Analysis
Linguistic Ideology and Praxis in US Law School Classrooms
Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom
Footing
“An Association for the 21st Century”: Performance and Social Change among Berbers in Paris
Signing
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