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 seventeenth-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 school classrooms / Elizabeth Mertz
Participant structures and communicative competence: Warm Springs children in community and classroom / Susan U. Philips
Footing / Erving Goffman
"An association for the 21st century": performance and social change among Berbers in Paris / Jane E. Goodman
Signing / Leila Monaghan
Variation in sign languages / Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan
The founding of two deaf churches / Leila Monaghan
Attacking the bureaucratic language of car sales: a case study of a car sales event / Roger W. Shuy.
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A cultural approach to interpersonal communication : essential readings. ISBN 9781405125949. Published by Blackwell in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
