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<p class="MsoNormal">This is to announce a new monograph.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">THE STRUCTURE OF MEANING IN TALK: EXPLORATIONS IN CATEGORY
ANALYSIS.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>VOLUME I: CO-CATEGORIZATION,
CONTRAST, AND HIERARCHY.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Jack Bilmes, University of Hawaii</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:
JA">This monograph represents most of the work that I have so far done in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">occasioned semantics</i>, which is an
attempt to analyze meaning structures in<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> </i>recorded,
transcribed talk in a systematic way. As presently conceived, occasioned
semantics deals with co- categorization and contrast, hierarchy (inclusiveness
and subsumption), and scaling in actual talk. My work on categorical hierarchy,
co-categorization, and contrast, as represented in taxonomic form, is rather
more advanced than my work on scaling, so this volume is devoted to taxonomic
relations. (I am planning eventually to produce a second volume, devoted to
scaling.)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Following Harvey Sacks
approach to category analysis, I attend to how categories are invoked, constructed,
and used on particular occasions, with constant attention to the here-and-now,
sequential and indexical properties of the talk. So, the taxonomies (and,
eventually, scales) that I deal with are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">occasioned
taxonomies</i> (and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">occasioned scales</i>).</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Rather than publish this monograph, I have,
for various reasons, decided to make it generally available as a pdf, with embedded
sound and video recordings.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>It can be
found at <font size="4"><</font></span></b><font size="4"><b><span><a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bilmes">http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bilmes</a></span></b></font><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><font size="4">></font>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>(Video and sound will be available only if
document is opened with Adobe Acrobat.)</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Contents</b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt;">Introduction

</p><p class="" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span>Formulation and occasioned semantics</p>

<p class="" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span>Taxonomic structure—Inclusion,
co-categorization, and contrast</p>

<p class="" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span>Extended MCA (Membership Categorization
Analysis)</p>

<p class="" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span>Beyond MCA</p>

<p class="" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span>Application of taxonomic technique to an example
from Sacks</p>

<p class="" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span>Contrast and hierarchy</p>

<p class="" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span>Formulation structure in ethnographic context</p>

<p class="" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span>Closing thoughts</p>

<p class="" style="margin: 0in -4.5pt 0.0001pt 0.25in;">Appendix
1: Negotiating the meaning of a gesture</p>

<p class="" style="margin: 0in -4.5pt 0.0001pt 0.25in;">Appendix
2: “The baby cried” reconsidered</p>

<p class="" style="margin: 0in -4.5pt 0.0001pt 0.25in;">Appendix
3: Invoking context: Schegloff’s criteria and their implications for
ethnography</p>

<p class="" style="margin: 0in -4.5pt 0.0001pt 0.25in;">Appendix
4: Federal Trade Commission footnote discussion</p>

<p class="" style="margin: 0in -4.5pt 0.0001pt 0.25in;">References</p>

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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Department of Anthropology<br>University of Hawaii<br>Honolulu, Hawaii 96822</div>
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