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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781739103321

Autore

Moerman Michael

Titolo

Talking Culture : Ethnography and Conversation Analysis / / Michael Moerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]

©1988

ISBN

1-283-21083-5

9786613210838

0-8122-0035-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Conduct and Communication

Disciplina

401/.9

Soggetti

Conversation analysis

Language and culture

Ethnology - Methodology

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Anthropology / Cultural

Journalism & Communications

Communication & Mass Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Conversation Analysis Among the Disciplines -- 2. Finding Life in Dry Dust -- 3. Nature and Culture -- 4. Motives in Action -- 5. Society in a Grain of Rice: An Exercise in Micro-Ethnography -- 6. Talking About the world -- Appendix A. Transcripts and Transcript Notation -- Appendix B. On "Understanding" in the Analysis of Natural Conversation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- Transcript index

Sommario/riassunto

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.