Conduct and Communication
Founded in 1969 under the joint editorship of Erving Goffman and Dell Hymes, this series provided a forum for talented and innovative scholars working in the fields of sociolinguistics and person-to-person interaction. The series is closed to new submissions.
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The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812211436
Pub Date: June 1983
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how...
Forms of Talk
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812211122
Pub Date: March 1981
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to...
Kinesics and Context
Essays on Body Motion Communication
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812210125
Pub Date: November 1970
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human...
Talking Culture
Ethnography and Conversation Analysis
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812212464
Pub Date: December 1987
Format: Paperback
212 Pages
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.
Sociolinguistic Patterns
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812210521
Pub Date: September 1973
Format: Paperback
362 Pages
This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its...
Strategic Interaction
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812210118
Pub Date: January 1970
Format: Paperback
160 Pages
The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examines the strategy of words and deeds; he uses the term...
Language in the Inner City
Studies in the Black English Vernacular
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812210514
Pub Date: September 1973
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics—or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or Black English Vernacular—much...
Foundations in Sociolinguistics
An Ethnographic Approach
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812210651
Pub Date: May 1974
Format: Paperback
260 Pages
Sociolinguistics is conceived here as a fundamental critical perspective on the whole of the study of language. The scientific problems within present linguistics, the book contends, combine with social...
Spiritual Discourse
Learning with an Islamic Master
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812214390
Pub Date: January 1993
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
Spiritual Discourse is a study of the process by which Baba Rexheb, a ninety-year-old Albanian leader of the Bektashi order, and Frances Trix, an American student who has studied with him for over twenty...
The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812211436
Pub Date: June 1983
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how...
Forms of Talk
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812211122
Pub Date: March 1981
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to...
Kinesics and Context
Essays on Body Motion Communication
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812210125
Pub Date: November 1970
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human...
Talking Culture
Ethnography and Conversation Analysis
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812212464
Pub Date: December 1987
Format: Paperback
212 Pages
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.
Sociolinguistic Patterns
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812210521
Pub Date: September 1973
Format: Paperback
362 Pages
This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its...
Strategic Interaction
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812210118
Pub Date: January 1970
Format: Paperback
160 Pages
The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examines the strategy of words and deeds; he uses the term...
Language in the Inner City
Studies in the Black English Vernacular
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812210514
Pub Date: September 1973
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics—or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or Black English Vernacular—much...
Foundations in Sociolinguistics
An Ethnographic Approach
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812210651
Pub Date: May 1974
Format: Paperback
260 Pages
Sociolinguistics is conceived here as a fundamental critical perspective on the whole of the study of language. The scientific problems within present linguistics, the book contends, combine with social...
Spiritual Discourse
Learning with an Islamic Master
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812214390
Pub Date: January 1993
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
Spiritual Discourse is a study of the process by which Baba Rexheb, a ninety-year-old Albanian leader of the Bektashi order, and Frances Trix, an American student who has studied with him for over twenty...