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Fine-tuned ethnographic attention to social and cultural context that enables you to interpret the meaning (or social business) of the events you observe.
What is thick description?
100
Communication is valued differently in society as a whole and by different people and groups
What is Bauman's fourth principle of communication?
100
"fictional" ethnic group used to critique ethnographers for misinterpreting or exaggerating social meanings, and to defamiliarize American culture.
Who are the Nacerima?
100
A type of talk used primarily as a way to establish connections. It is non-hierarchical and private.
What is rapport talk?
100
Is generally understood as what is being accomplished in any given social situation in terms of power, identity and values
What is a social business?
200
Accomplished when the action is intentionally meant to “do” something in the world, or when people interpret the action as meaning something.
What is social business?
200
Changing the type of language or communication we use depending on who we are talking to or the situation
What is code switching?
200
Provides a lesson in how to approach ethnography where the subject involves individuals who have been historically marginalized.
What is "The License"?
200
Used to heighten the power of the performance because they carry a special charge
What are curse words?
200
Empty phrases that we use extensively to maintain politeness
What is phatic communication?
300
The idea that language can be understood as simply grammar and vocabulary building separate from its cultural context. Agar argues that to truly understand a culture and a language this needs to be removed.
What is the circle around language?
300
“The temporary suspension…of hierarchical rank… A special type of communication impossible in everyday life… [liberated] from norms of ettiquette and decency imposed at other times
What is carnivalesque?
300
Needs to be seriously considered when transcribing the words of our subjects so that they are represented honestly but also with respect.
What is orthography?
300
Speech that is used informally and "off the record"?
What is everyday speech?
300
A screenshot of a text conversation is an example of this
What is entextualization?
400
It’s used to ensure you pay attention to all aspects of the ethnographic situation, instead of taking things for granted or making warrant-less assumptions. Consists of setting, participants, ends, act sequence, key, instrumentality, norms, genre.
What is the speaking model?
400
"A kind of verbal contamination, resembling… ‘matter out of place,'" or "When a “different” style of language (or any other expression) “intrud[es] in inappropriate settings.” (202)
What is dirt?
400
The process of providing a summary of a narrative or media that has been removed from its original context
What is reentextualization?
400
Type of talk used to maintain independence and status
What is report talk?
400
A southern accent is an example of this points to the fact that a person is from the south.
What is an index?
500
form, function, meaning
What are the three parts to Lakoff's linguistic triangle?
500
Resides in "the interplay between communicative resources, individual competence and the goals of the participants" and has the potential upend existing hierarchies.
What is the emergent quality of performance?
500
According to Wilce, this occurs when a symbol is mistaken for an icon
What is prejudice?
500
Types of conversational signals where differing use can results in misunderstandings
What are pacing and pausing, loudness and pitch?
500
In addition to what is actually stated out loud, we use signals and devices to convey this, unstated message
What is metamessage?
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