Talking Culture

Talking Culture Ethnography and Conversation Analysis Michael Moerman

""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

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book

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.

Conduct and Communication 1988 ISBN 978-0-8122-1246-4 World Rights