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Talking Culture
Ethnography and Conversation Analysis

Michael Moerman (Author)

9780812212464

Paperback / softback, published 1 December 1987

212 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.346 kg

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book

"There is nothing else like it. . . . The best introduction to conversation analysis for an anthropologist and the only example of the full-scale employment of it in a non-Western culture."-Charles O. Frake, Stanford University

"Talking Culture tackles an important task-bringing conversation analysis and ethnography into a fruitful rapprochement. . . . [Moerman's] insights into the construction of inequality between Thai peasants and officials provide us with a sense of just how fruitful the marriage of conversation analysis and ethnography can be."-American Anthropologist

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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