A cultural approach to interpersonal communication: essential readings

Introduction / Jane E. Goodman and Leila Monaghan

Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner

Culture blends / Michael Agar

Five principles / Richard Bauman

Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture / Clifford Geertz

Winking as social business / Jane E. Goodman

Speaking of ethnography / Leila Monaghan

The emergent quality of performance / Richard Bauman

Poetics, play, process, and power: the performative turn in anthropology / Dwight Conquergood

Narrative lessons / Elinor Ochs

Greetings in the desert / Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Allen D. Grimshaw, and Charles S. Bird

Let your words be few: symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeeth-century Quakers / Richard Bauman

"To give up on words": silence in western Apache culture / Keith Basso

"What we need is communication": "communication" as a cultural category in some American speech / Tamar Katriel and Gerry Philipsen

Writing Cousin Joe: choice and control over orthographic representation in a blues singer's autobiography / Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer

Talking culture: ethnography and conversation analysis / Michael Moerman

The triangle of linguistic structure / Robin Tolmach Lakoff

The grammar of politics and the politics of grammar: from

Bangladesh to the United States / James Wilce

Conversations: the link between words and the world / Leila Monaghan

Conversational signals and devices / Deborah Tannen

A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker

Preface and "put down that paper and talk to me!": rapport-talk and report-talk / Deborah Tannen

Swearing / Lars Andersson and Peter Trudgill

Swearing as a function of gender in the language of midwestern American college students / Thomas E. Murray

Speech communities / R.A. Hudson

Encounters / Erving Goffman

Symbols of category membership / Penelope Eckert

Word up: social meanings of slang in California youth culture / Mary Bucholtz

Odd girl out: the hidden culture of aggression in girls / Rachel Simmons

Sporting formulae in New Zealand English: two models of male solidarity / Koenraad Kuiper

Inner-city teens and face-work: avoiding violence and maintaining honor / Robert Garot

Speech play / John Holmes McDowell

"If I'm lyin, I'm flyin": the game of insult in Black language / Geneva Smitherman

Power and the language of men / Scott Fabius Kiesling

Mayor Daley's council speech: a cultural analysis / Gerry Philipsen

Linguistic ideology and praxis in US law

adesh to the United States / James Wilce

Conversations: the link between words and the world / Leila Monaghan

Conversational signals and devices / Deborah Tannen

A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker

Preface and "put down that paper and talk to me!": rapport-talk and report-talk / Deborah Tannen

Swearing / Lars Andersson and Peter Trudgill

Swearing as a function of gender in the language of midwestern American college students / Thomas E. Murray

Speech communities / R.A. Hudson