TY - BOOK AU - Silverstein, Michael, AU - Urban, Greg, TI - Natural histories of discourse SN - 0226757692 (cloth : acidfree paper) U1 - 401/.41 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Language and culture KW - Discourse analysis KW - Metalanguage N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -