Rethinking context : language as an interactive phenomenon / edited by Alessandro Duranti and Charles Goodwin

Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Rethinking context : an introduction / Charles Goodwin and Alessandro Duranti -- The indexical ground of deictic reference / William F. Hanks -- Language in context and language as context : the Samoan respect vocabulary / Alessandro Duranti -- Context contests : debatable truth statements on Tanna (Vanuatu) / Lamont Lindstrom -- Contextualization, tradition, and the dialogue of genres : Icelandic legends of the kraftaska?ld / Richard Bauman -- Assessments and the construction of context / Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin -- In another context / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Contextualization and understanding / John J. Gumperz -- Contextualization in Kalapalo narratives / Ellen B. Basso -- Radio talk-show therapy and the pragmatics of possible worlds / Frank Gaik -- The interpenetration of communicative contexts : examples from medical encounters / Aaron V. Cicourel -- The routinization of repair in courtroom discourse / Susan U. Philips -- The negotiation of context in face-to-face interaction / Adam Kendon -- Indexing gender / Elinor Ochs. Subjects; Language and culture. Context (Linguistics). Oral communication. 1 Kg.…