Natural histories of discourse - Silverstein, Michael, 1945-2020.; Urban, Greg, 1949- (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996)
The natural history of discourse / Michael Silverstein and Greg Urba n -- Entextualization, replication, and power / Greg Urban -- Text from talk in Tzotzil / John Haviland -- The secret life of texts / Michael Silverstein -- "Self"-centering narratives / Vincent Crapanzano -- Shad ow conversations / Judith T. Irvine -- Exorcism and the description of participant roles / William F. Hanks -- Socialization to texts / James Collins -- Recontextualization as socialization : text and pragmatics i n the law school classroom / Elizabeth Mertz -- The construction of an LD student / Hugh Mehan -- National spirit or the breath of nature? : t he expropriation of folk positivism in the discourse of Greek nationali sm / Michael Herzfeld -- Transformations of the world in the production of Mexican festival drama / Richard Bauman -- Codafication [sic] / Gre g Urban and Michael Silverstein.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Language and culture; Discourse analysis; Metalanguage