Talking Culture : Ethnography and Conversation Analysis.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Conversation Analysis Among the Disciplines -- Social Interaction and Social Theory -- Conversation Analysis and Ethnographic Practice -- Talk as Data -- Envoi -- 2 Finding Life in Dry Dust -- The Leper -- Overlap and Social Categories -- Overlap in Context -- 3 Nature and Culture -- Introduction -- Summary of Sacks and Schegloff 1979 -- Thai and American Sequential Organization -- Ethnographic Implications -- Ethnographic Application -- 4 Motives in Action -- Introduction -- The Social Organization of Speech at Thai Criminal Trials -- Actions and Practice -- Actions, Actors, and Intentions -- 5 Society in a Grain of Rice: An Exercise in Micro-Ethnography -- Goals -- Means -- Background and Setting -- The Segment -- Culturally Contexted Conversation Analysis and Interpretive Anthropology -- 6 Talking About the World -- Language, Talk, and Reality -- A Plea for Noticings -- When to Notice -- Language, Truth, and Talk -- What to Notice -- The World Talked About -- Appendix A: Transcripts and Transcript Notation -- Appendix B: On "Understanding" in the Analysis of Natural Conversation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Transcript Index.

Argues that anyone--anthropologist, psychologist, or policeman--who uses what people say to find out what people think had better know how speech itself is organized.

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