reading
I thought I had it all under control. I really did. Then my syllabus finally arrived for “Language and Culture.” All 27 pages of it. Oh man. This is supposed to be a killer course in both content and its effect on the students. But I wasn’t prepared for:
Giglioli, LaSC: *Hymes (21-44); !Goffman (61-66).
Blount, LcaS: Hymes (248-82, esp. 255-69)
Silverstein & Urban, NHD: 1-17.
Duranti & Goodwin, RC: Goodwin & Duranti (1-42).
Goffman, Erving. The interaction order. American Sociological Review 48.1-17 (1983).
*Lyons, LS: ch. 1; ch.2, sec. 2.0-2.1; ch.9, sec. 9.0-9.3.
Lee, TH: Intro; !ch. 1 (1-39).
!Bauman, Richard & Briggs, Charles. Poetics and performance as critical perspectives on language and social life. Annual Review of Anthropology 19.59-88 (1990).
That’s for this week. Part of that is due for class today. Which starts in about an hour and a half. Less actually. I’m off to read.
For those counting I did a quick tally and it’s easily over 200 pages of dense material. Welcome to the Social Sciences boot camp Matt.
Hehehe. I read Goffman–direct interaction in the person to person model. The example used with eye contact, and purposeful lack of eye contact (signaling not to engage). This is gonna be fun. My thesis advisor got his PhD at your university. Thanks for posting the reading. If I ever have a spare moment again, I just might hunt down something you’re reading. :-)
Many smiles,
Di