Part 1 Learning language, learning culture: what no bedtime story means - narrative skills at home and school, Shirley Brice Heath; detective stories at dinner-time - problem-solving through co-narration, Elinor Ochs et al; hard talk - a functional basis for Kaluli discourse, Steven Feld and Bambi B. Schieffelin. Part 2 Gender, power and discourse: a cultural model for male-female miscommunication, Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker; norm-makers, norm-breakers - uses of speech by men and women in a Malagasy community, Elinor Ochs; the whole woman - sex and gender differences in variation, Penelope Eckert. Part 3 Genre, style, performance: biography of a sentence - a Burmese proverb, A.L. Becker; any man who keeps more'n one hound'll lie to you, Richard Bauman; carnes, carnales, and carnivalesque - Bakhtinian batos, disorder and narrative discourse, Jose Limon. Part 4 Language as social practice: grog and gossip in Bhatgaon - style and substance in Fiji Indian conversation, Donald Brenneis; reflections on a meeting - structure, language and the polity in a small-scale society, Fred R. Myers; when talk isn't cheap - language and political economy, Judith Irvine; monoglot "standard" in America - standardization and metaphors of linguistic hegemony, Michael Silverstein; the grammar of consciousness and the consciousness of grammar, Jane H. Hill.
