Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis

Michael Moerman

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1988

Talking Culture

Ethnography and Conversation Analysis

Michael Moerman

In the series Conduct and Communication

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200355

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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.

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"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

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book

"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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Conversation Analysis Among the Disciplines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Finding Life in Dry Dust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Nature and Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. Motives in Action Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
5. Society in a Grain of Rice: An Exercise in Micro-Ethnography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
6. Talking About the world Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Appendix A. Transcripts and Transcript Notation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Appendix B. On "Understanding" in the Analysis of Natural Conversation Michael Moerman and HARVEY SACKS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Transcript index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 212
Keywords: Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics

eBook

Published: August 3, 2010
ISBN: 9780812200355