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ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION. An ethnography of communication includes descriptions of all explicit and implicit norms for communication, detailing aspects of verbal, nonverbal, and social parameters of interaction. Components. For Dell Hymes: 1) Participants, minimally speaker and addressee
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An ethnography of communication includes descriptions of all explicit and implicit norms for communication, detailing aspects of verbal, nonverbal, and social parameters of interaction
Components For Dell Hymes: 1) Participants, minimally speaker and addressee 2) Code used by interlocutors 3) Channel (speaking/writing/nonverbal signals) 4) Setting or context 5) Form or genre (conversation, folktale, chant, debate) 6) Topics and attitudes
For Bonvillain, organizing question in analysis of communicative event: What are the functions of speech? • All cultures provide rules for appropriate communicative interaction in any given context: • Behaviors that should occur • Behaviors that may occur; • Behaviors that should not occur
Contextual Components • Setting • Participants: • Terms of Address (TLN/FN) • Pronouns (V/T) • Kinship terms (Aunt/Uncle) • Honorifics • Topics and Goals