Alessandro Duranti / Charles Goodwin (eds.)

Rethinking Context

Language as an Interactive Phenomenon
Herausgeber: Duranti, Alessandro; Goodwin, Charles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection, written by many of the leading figures in the social sciences, critically reexamine the concept of context from a variety of different angles and propose new ways of thinking abut it with reference to specific human activities such as face-to-face interaction, radio talk, medical diagnosis, political encounters, and socialization practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780521422888
• ISBN-10: 0521422884
• Artikelnr.: 21399082

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking Context: an introduction Charles Goodwin, and Alessandro
Duranti; 2. The indexical ground of Deictic Reference William F. Hanks; 3.
Language in context and language as context: the Samoan respect vocabulary
Alessandro Duranti; 4. Context contests: debatable truth statements on
Tanna (Vanuatu) Lamont Lindstrom; 5. Contextualization, tradition, and the
dialogue of contexts: Icelandic Legends of the Kraftaskald Richard Bauman;
6. Assessments and the construction of context Charles Goodwin, and
Marjorie Harness Goodwin; 7. In another context Emanuel A. Schegloff; 8.
Contextualization and understanding John Gumperz; 9. Contextualization in
Kalapalo narratives Ellen Basso; 10. Radio talk-show therapy and the
pragmatics of possible worlds Frank Gaik; 11. The interpenetration of
communicative contexts: examples from medical encounters Aaron Cicourel;
12. The routinization of repair in courtroom discourse Susan U. Philips;
13. The negotiation of context in face-to-face interaction Adam Kendon; 14.
Indexing gender Elinor Ochs.