query - ethnographies of non-Western public speaking

[David Boromisza-Habashi]

Dear All,

Thank you for the very helpful responses to my query. Below, I share
the expanded bibliography.

DBH

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Speaking in public in non-Western / traditional societies: A bibliography

Bloch, M. (1975). Political language and oratory in traditional
society. Academic Press.
Carbaugh, D. (1993). “Soul” and “self”: Soviet and American cultures
in conversation. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 79, 182-200.
Carbaugh, D. (2005). “I can’t do that” but I “can actually see around
corners”: American Indian students and the study of “communication.”
In D. Carbaugh, Cultures in conversation (pp. 82-99). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Carbaugh, D. & Wolf, K. (1999). Situating rhetoric in cultural
discourses. In A. González & D. V. Tanno (Eds.), Rhetoric in
intercultural contexts (pp. 19-30). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Frake, C. O. (1986). “Struck by speech”: The Yakan concept of
litigation. In J. J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.), Directions in
sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication (pp. 106-129).
Oxford, New York: Basil Blackwell.
Howe, J. (1986). The Kuna gathering. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Hymes, D. (1969). Linguistic aspects of comparative political
research. In R. T. Holt & J. Turner (Eds.), Methodology of comparative
research. New York: The Free Press.
Irvine, J. T. (1979). Formality and informality in communicative
events. American Anthropologist, 81, 773-790.
Liberman, K. (1990). Intercultural communication in Central Australia.
In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), Cultural communication and intercultural contact
(pp. 177-183). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Moore, S. F. (1977). Political meetings and the simulation of
unanimity: Kilimajaro, 1973. In S. Moore & B. Myerhoff (Eds.), Symbol
and politics in communal ideology (pp. 151-157). Ithaca: Cornell
University Press.
Morgan, M. (2002). Language, power and discourse in African American
culture. Cambridge University Press.
Myers, F. R. (1986). Reflections on a meeting: Structure, language and
the polity in a small-scale society. American Ethnologist, 13,
430-447.
Paine, R. (1981). Politically speaking: Cross-cultural studies of
rhetoric. Institute of Social & Economic Research, Memorial University
of Newfoundland.
Philips, S. U. (1976). Some sources of cultural variability in the
regulation of talk. Language in Society, 5, 81-95.
Pratt, S. & Wieder, D. L. (1993). The case of saying a few words and
talking for another among the Osage people: ‘Public speaking” as an
object of ethnography. Research on Language and Social Interaction,
26, 353-408.
Rosaldo, M. Z. (1973). I have nothing to hide: The language of Ilongot
oratory. Language in Society, 2, 193-224.
Sherzer, J. (1990). Verbal art in San Blas: Kuna culture through its
discourse. Cambridge University Press.
Silverman, M. G. (1977). Making sense: A study of Banaban meeting. In
J. L. Dolgin, D. S. Kemnitzer, & D. M. Scheider (Eds.), Symbolic
anthropology (pp. 451-479). New York: Columbia University Press.
Wieder, D. L. & Pratt, S. (1990). On being a recognizable Indian among
Indians. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), Cultural communication and
intercultural contact (pp. 45-64). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Yankah, K. (1995). Metadiscourse: The framing of avoidance in formal
encounters. Text, 15, 229-252.
Yankah, K. (1998). Free speech in traditional society: The cultural
foundations of communication in contemporary Ghana. Accra: Ghana
Universities Press.
Yankah, K. (2006). Education, literacy, and governance: A linguistic
inquiry into Ghana’s burgeoning democracy. Accra, Ghana: Ghana Academy
of Arts and Sciences.


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David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Colorado, 270 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0270, USA
Web: http://comm.colorado.edu/people.php?id=103

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