Books in the Conduct and Communication series

This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its social setting.

Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.

This book brings together five of Goffman's seminal essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk."

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.

The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman explore the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction.

Focuses on a relationship, for the relationship of "seeker" and "master" mirrors that of the human and God.