Natural Histories of Discourse [Paperback ed.] 0226757706, 9780226757704
Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
The Natural History of Discourse
Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban.
1: Entextualization, Replication, and Power
Greg Urban
2: Text from Talk in Tzotzil
John B. Haviland
3: The Secret Life of Texts
Michael Silverstein
4: "Self"-Centering Narratives
Vincent Crapanzano
5: Shadow Conversations: The Indeterminacy of Participant Roles
Judith T. Irvine
6: Exorcism and the Description of Participant Roles
William F. Hanks
7: Socialization to Text: Structure and Contradiction in Schooled
Literacy
James Collins
8: Recontextualization as Socialization: Text and Pragmatics in the Law
School Classroom
Elizabeth Mertz
9: The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of
Representation
Hugh Mehan
10: National Spirit or the Breath of Nature? The Expropriation of Folk
Positivism in the Discourse of Greek Nationalism
Michael Herzfeld
11: Transformations of the Word in the Production of Mexican Festival
Drama
Richard Bauman
Codafication [sic]
Greg Urban, Michael Silverstein.
List of Contributors
Index
