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Title:

Natural histories of discourse / edited by Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

ix, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Language and culture.
Discourse analysis.
Metalanguage

Other Authors:

Silverstein, Michael, 1945-
Urban, Greg, 1949-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The natural history of discourse / Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban -- Entextualization, replication, and power / Greg Urban -- Text from talk in Tzotzil / John Haviland -- The secret life of texts / Michael Silverstein -- "Self"-centering narratives / Vincent Crapanzano -- Shadow conversations / Judith T. Irvine -- Exorcism and the description of participant roles / William F. Hanks -- Socialization to texts / James Collins -- Recontextualization as socialization : text and pragmatics in the law school classroom / Elizabeth Mertz -- The construction of an LD student / Hugh Mehan -- National spirit or the breath of nature? : the expropriation of folk positivism in the discourse of Greek nationalism / Michael Herzfeld -- Transformations of the world in the production of Mexican festival drama / Richard Bauman -- Codafication [sic] / Greg Urban and Michael Silverstein.

ISBN:

9780226757704 (paper : acid-free paper)
0226757706 (paper : acid-free paper)
9780226757698 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0226757692 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)33819833

LCCN:

95049852

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)