The Ethnography of Communication – An Introduction 3e Saville–Troike Hardback

The Ethnography of CommunicationAn Introduction\nAuthor(s): Muriel Saville-Troike\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9780631228417, 978-0631228417\nSynopsis\nThe Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures.\n\nPresents the essential terms and concepts introduced and developed by Dell Hymes and others and surveys the most important findings and applications of their work.\nDraws on insights from social anthropology and psycholinguistics in investigating the patterning of communicative behavior in specific cultural settings.\nIncludes two completely new chapters on contrasts in patterns of communication and on politeness, power, and politics.\nIncorporates a broad range of examples and illustrations from many languages and cultures for analyzing patterns of communicative phenomena.