Talking Culture
Ethnography and Conversation Analysis
1st Edition
Published on 3. August 2010
212 pages
978-0-8122-0035-5 (ISBN)
Description
Argues that anyone-anthropologist, psychologist, or policeman-who uses what people say to find out what people think had better know how speech itself is organized.
Reviews / Votes
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book"There is nothing else like it. . . . The best introduction to conversation analysis for an anthropologist and the only example of the full-scale employment of it in a non-Western culture."-Charles O. Frake, Stanford University
"Talking Culture tackles an important task-bringing conversation analysis and ethnography into a fruitful rapprochement. . . . [Moerman's] insights into the construction of inequality between Thai peasants and officials provide us with a sense of just how fruitful the marriage of conversation analysis and ethnography can be."-American Anthropologist
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-0035-5 (9780812200355)
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12/1987
University of Pennsylvania Press
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Conversation Analysis Among the Disciplines
- Social Interaction and Social Theory
- Conversation Analysis and Ethnographic Practice
- Talk as Data
- Envoi
- 2 Finding Life in Dry Dust
- The Leper
- Overlap and Social Categories
- Overlap in Context
- 3 Nature and Culture
- Introduction
- Summary of Sacks and Schegloff 1979
- Thai and American Sequential Organization
- Ethnographic Implications
- Ethnographic Application
- 4 Motives in Action
- Introduction
- The Social Organization of Speech at Thai Criminal Trials
- Actions and Practice
- Actions, Actors, and Intentions
- 5 Society in a Grain of Rice: An Exercise in Micro-Ethnography
- Goals
- Means
- Background and Setting
- The Segment
- Culturally Contexted Conversation Analysis and Interpretive Anthropology
- 6 Talking About the World
- Language, Talk, and Reality
- A Plea for Noticings
- When to Notice
- Language, Truth, and Talk
- What to Notice
- The World Talked About
- Appendix A: Transcripts and Transcript Notation
- Appendix B: On "Understanding" in the Analysis of Natural Conversation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Transcript Index
