A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405125942 ISBN 13: 9781405125949

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

Starting from the premise that interpersonal communication is inseparable from culture, this collection moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject by foregrounding the ways in which interpersonal relationships emerge through culturally mediated language practices. 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.

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About the Author

Leila Monaghan Leila Monaghan teaches Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Previously she was the Course Director of Interpersonal Communication in the Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. She is co–editor of the recent volumes Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities (2003) and HIV/AIDS and Deaf Communities (2006).

Jane E. Goodman is Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, where she teaches performance and ethnographic studies. She previously served as Course Director of Interpersonal Communication. Goodman is the author of Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video (2005).

From the Back Cover

Starting from the premise that interpersonal communication is inseparable from culture, this collection moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject by foregrounding the ways in which interpersonal relationships emerge through culturally mediated language practices. Drawing on ethnographic material, A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication introduces students to the rich and varied communicative practices of social communities around the world. Readings explore interpersonal interactions in an internationally diverse range of settings, such as the use of slang in California high schools, the application of sign language in a church for the Deaf, Tuareg greetings in the Sahara, everyday verbal encounters on American city streets, the speech of male rugby players in New Zealand, and the language of aggression among Mississippi girls. This engaging and innovative volume also provides sample assignments that will give students the conceptual and practical tools to develop their own ethnographic research on language practices.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405125942
• ISBN 13: 9781405125949
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Monaghan Leila, Goodman Jane E.