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A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings

Leila Monaghan (Editor), Jane E. Goodman (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2595-6
Hardcover
508 pages
January 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Proposes a new approach to interpersonal communication, based in ethnography and performance.
  • Features ethnographic articles that are inviting and accessible to beginning students.
  • Explores interpersonal interactions in a range of settings: from high school slang in California to sign language use in a deaf church, from Tuareg greetings in the Sahara to the language of aggression among Mississippi girls.
  • Includes articles with detailed transcripts of conversation that students can analyze.
  • Provides students with conceptual and practical tools to develop their own ethnographic research on language practices.