Natural histories of discourse
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Natural histories of discourse
University of Chicago Press, 1996
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The natural history of discourse / Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban
- Entextualization, replication, and power / Greg Urban
- Text from talk in Tzotzil / John B. Haviland
- The secret life of texts / Michael Silverstein
- "Self"-centering narratives / Vincent Crapanzano
- Shadow conversations : the indeterminacy of participant roles / Judith T. Irvine
- Exorcism and the description of participant roles / William F. Hanks
- Socialization to text : structure and contradiction in schooled literacy / James Collins
- Recontextualization as socialization : text and pragmatics in the law school classroom / Elizabeth Mertz
- The construction of an LD student : a case study in the politics of representation / Hugh Mehan
- National spirit or the breath of nature? : the expropriation of folk positivism in the discourse of Greek nationalism / Michael Herzfeld
- Transformations of the word in the production of Mexican festival drama / Richard Bauman
- Codafication [sic] / Greg Urban and Michael Silverstein
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this collection of ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals "culture" to those who can interpret it. Eleven original essays of "natural history" range in focus from nuptial poetry of insult to case-based teaching methods in first-year law-school classrooms. Stage by stage, they give an idea of the cultural processes of "entextualization" and "contextualization" of discourse that they illustrate.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments The Natural History of Discourse Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban. 1: Entextualization, Replication, and Power Greg Urban 2: Text from Talk in Tzotzil John B. Haviland 3: The Secret Life of Texts Michael Silverstein 4: "Self"-Centering Narratives Vincent Crapanzano 5: Shadow Conversations: The Indeterminacy of Participant Roles Judith T. Irvine 6: Exorcism and the Description of Participant Roles William F. Hanks 7: Socialization to Text: Structure and Contradiction in Schooled Literacy James Collins 8: Recontextualization as Socialization: Text and Pragmatics in the Law School Classroom Elizabeth Mertz 9: The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation Hugh Mehan 10: National Spirit or the Breath of Nature? The Expropriation of Folk Positivism in the Discourse of Greek Nationalism Michael Herzfeld 11: Transformations of the Word in the Production of Mexican Festival Drama Richard Bauman Codafication [sic] Greg Urban, Michael Silverstein. List of Contributors Index
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