Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication.

Preface. Introduction: John J. Gumperz. Plan of the Book. Part I: Ethnographic Description and Explanation. 1. Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life: Dell Hymes. 2. Culture Patterning of Speech Behavior in Burundi: Ethel M. Albert. 3. Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation: Charles O. Frake. 4. The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes, Alan Dundes, Jerry W. Leach, and Bora Ozkok. 5. Signifying and Marking: Two Afro-American Speech Acts: Claudia Mitchell-Kernan. 6. Riddles: Expressive Models of Interrogation: John M. Roberts and Michael L. Forman. Part II: Discovering Structure in Speech. 7. On Sociolinguistic Rules: Alternation and Co-occurrence: Susan Ervin-Tripp. 8. Context and Alternation in Koya Kinship Terminology: Stephen A. Tyler. 9. Social Context and Semantic Feature: The Russian Pronominal Usage: Paul Friedrich. 10. Remarks on Ethnomethodology: Harold Garfinkel. 11. On the Analyzability of Stories by Children: Harvey Sacks. 12. Sequencing in Conversational Openings: Emanuel A. Schegloff. 13. A Kinesic-Linguistic Exercise: The Cigarette Scene: Ray L. Birdwhistell. Part III: Genesis, Maintenance, and Change of Linguistic Codes. 14. Social Meaning in Linguistic Structures: Code-Switching in Norway: Jan-Petter Blom and John J. Gumperz. 15. Domains and the Relationship between Micro- and Macrosociolinguistics: Joshua A. Fishman. 16. Ethnic Process on the Pathan-Baluch Boundary: Fredrik Barth. 17. A Sociolinguistic Approach to Socialization with Some Reference to Educability: Basil Bernstein. 18. The Stylistic Significance of Consonaantal Sandhi in Trukese and Ponapean: John L. Fischer. 19. On the Mechanism of Linguistic Change: William Labov. Appendix I: Background Reading Appendix II: Outline Guide for the Ethnographic Study of Speech Use: Joel Sherzer and Regna Darnell. Bibliography.Index.