Dialogues with ethnography : notes on classics, and how I read them /

Blommaert, Jan,

Dialogues with ethnography : notes on classics, and how I read them / Jan Blommaert. - xxi, 171 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. - Encounters ; 10 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-166) and index.

Ethnography as couter-hegemony: remarks on epistemology and method -- Obituary: Dell H. Hymes (1927-2009) -- Ethnography and democracy: hymes political theory of language -- Ethnopoetics as functional reconstruction: Dell Hymes narrative view of the world -- Grassroots historiography and the problem of voice: tshibumbas histoire du zare -- Historical bodies and historical space -- Semiotic and spatial scope: towards a materialist semiotics -- Pierre Bourdieu and language in society -- Combining surveys and ethnographies in the study of rapid social change -- Data sharing as entextualization practice -- Chronotopes, scales and complexity in the study of language in society -- Marxism and urban culture -- On scope and depth in linguistic ethnography: a commentary.

9781783099498 (softcover : alk. paper) 9781783099504 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2017038807


Ethnology--Social aspects.
Language and culture.
Sociolinguistics.

P40 / .B46 2018

306.44 / B6201 2018