Talking Culture - Ethnography and Conversation Analysis

Informationen zum Autor By Michael Moerman Klappentext Talking Culture Ethnography and Conversation Analysis Michael Moerman "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 Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book 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. Conduct and Communication 1988 | 212 pages | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-1246-4 | Paper | $26.50s | £17.50 World Rights | Anthropology Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Moerman, Moerman Michael
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1987
• EAN: 9780812212464
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1246-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Conduct and Communication; Conduct & Communication Series; Conduct and Communication; Conduct & Communication Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories