Scholars have vacillated for centuries between two opposing assessments of the role of
poetics in social life. A long tradition of thinking about language and society argues that …

The ethnography of speaking has had a relatively brief history as a named field inquiry,
dating back only to 1962 and the appearance of Dell Hymes' seminal essay," The …

FOUNDATIONS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS: An Ethnographic Approach Page 1 Page 2 The
International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library FOUNDATIONS IN …

Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific
research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received interviewing …

Departing from text‐centered perspectives on verbal art, an approach is developed to verbal
art as performance, derived from recent work in folklore, the ethnography of speaking …

A classic ethnography reveals the worlds of amateur musicians. Back in print with a new
preface. A landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the …

This classic study is an introduction to “oral poetry,” a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan
interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to …

A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of
Native stories and storytellers in North America,? In vain I tried to tell you? showcases the …

The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which
anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention. Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts …

First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking
had a formative influence on the field. No other volume has so successfully provided a …