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Book SynopsisThis collection of ethnographies demonstrates that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals culture. The cultural processes of entextualization and contextualization are examined.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
