Natural histories of discourse
By: edited by Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban.
Contributors: Silverstein, Michael, 1945-; Urban, Greg, 1949-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Language and culture.; Discourse analysis.; Metalanguage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The natural history of discourse / Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban; title: Entextualization, replication, and power / Greg Urban; title: Text from talk in Tzotzil / John Haviland; title: The secret life of texts / Michael Silverstein; title: "Self"-centering narratives / Vincent Crapanzano; title: Shadow conversations / Judith T. Irvine; title: Exorcism and the description of participant roles / William F. Hanks; title: Socialization to texts / James Collins; title: Recontextualization as socialization : text and pragmatics in the law school classroom / Elizabeth Mertz; title: The construction of an LD student / Hugh Mehan; title: National spirit or the breath of nature? : the expropriation of folk positivism in the discourse of Greek nationalism / Michael Herzfeld; title: Transformations of the world in the production of Mexican festival drama / Richard Bauman; title: Codafication [sic] / Greg Urban and Michael Silverstein.