A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication

Essential Readings

Monaghan, Leila / Goodman, Jane E. / Robinson, Jennifer (Editor)

2. Edition February 2012
504 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

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Starting from the premise that interpersonal communication is inseparable from culture, this collection moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject by foregrounding the ways in which interpersonal relationships emerge through culturally mediated language practices. It proposes a new approach to interpersonal communication, based in ethnography and performance. It features ethnographic articles that are inviting and accessible to beginning students. It includes articles with detailed transcripts of conversation that students can analyze while providing them with conceptual and practical tools to develop their own ethnographic research on language practices.

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3531-6

John Wiley & Sons

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Featuring several all-new chapters, revisions, and updates, the Second Edition of A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication presents an interdisciplinary collection of key readings that explore how interpersonal communication is socially and culturally mediated.
* Includes key readings from the fields of cultural and linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and communication studies
* Features new chapters that focus on digital media
* Offers new introductory chapters and an expanded toolkit of concepts that students may draw on to link culture, communication, and community
* Expands the Ethnographer's Toolkit to include an introduction to basic concepts followed by a range of ethnographic case studies

Preface for Instructors
Editors' Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements to Sources
Introduction: Jane E. Goodman and Leila Monaghan
Part I: Ethnographer's Toolkit
Part II: Applying the Ethnographer's Toolkit
Part III: Ethnography of Talk: From Language Form to Social Solidarity
Part IV: Communication and Social Groups: The Work of Belonging
Part V: Interpersonal Communication in Institutional Settings: Structure, Agency, and the Exercise of Power
Appendix I: Read This First: How to Read and Present on Complex Texts
Appendix

"This style, and the wide-ranging subject matter, should encourage both student and academic readers to follow the editors' suggestion to see the material as a stepping stone towards their own research, rather than 'the final word' (p. 5). The reference lists at the end of the chapters could be another of these stones." (Discourse Studies, 16 January 2014)

Leila Monaghan currently teaches anthropology and disability studies at the University of Wyoming and the University of Maryland University College. She served as course director of Interpersonal Communication in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University for four years. Her publications include the co-edited volumes Many Ways to be Deaf and HIV/AIDS and Deaf Communities.

Jane E. Goodman is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. She is the author of Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video, and editor of Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments. She served as course director of Interpersonal Communication in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University for three years.

Jennifer Meta Robinson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. She is author of The Farmers' Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community, editor of Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum, and editor of the Indiana University Press book series Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She has served as course director of Interpersonal Communication in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University since 2006.

L. Monaghan, University of Wyoming, USA; J. E. Goodman, Indiana University, USA; J. Robinson, Indiana University, USA