Speaking Culturally: Explorations in Social Communication - Couverture rigide

Philipsen, Gerry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 079141163X ISBN 13 : 9780791411636

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1992

Synopsis

Speaking Culturally presents case studies of two cultures, focusing on how speaking is thematized and enacted in each. The Teamsterville culture is drawn from the author's studies of the spoken life of an urban, working-class neighborhood in Chicago, while the Nacirema culture draws upon studies of communication among middle-class Americans, primarily on the West Coast.

Using fieldwork conducted over a period of twenty years, Philipsen shows how listening to a people's spoken life can reveal expressions of underlying codes―or social rhetorics―of what it means to be a person, how persons can and should be linked together in social relations, and how communication can and should be used in interpersonal conduct. From these studies of speaking in two cultures emerges an understanding of communication as an activity in which people not only draw from and express but also shape and fashion their understandings of self, society, and strategic action.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gerry Philipsen is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 079141163X
• ISBN 13: 9780791411636
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 164
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• Personne responsable: non disponible