Toward Ethnographies of Communication
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Toward Ethnographies of Communication is a foundational scholarly work in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics that helped establish the ethnography of communication as a key approach to studying language use in social context.
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Target entity: Toward Ethnographies of Communication Context triple: [Dell Hymes, notableWork, Toward Ethnographies of Communication]
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"Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method" is a foundational methodological text that explores how photography can be systematically used as a tool for anthropological research and analysis.
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Reality as Social Process
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Fragments of Vernacular Matters
Fragments of Vernacular Matters is an English title commonly used for Petrarch’s influential Italian lyric collection "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta," a cornerstone of Renaissance poetry.
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Rethinking Social Inquiry
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gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toward Ethnographies of Communication Target entity description: Toward Ethnographies of Communication is a foundational scholarly work in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics that helped establish the ethnography of communication as a key approach to studying language use in social context.
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A.
Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method
"Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method" is a foundational methodological text that explores how photography can be systematically used as a tool for anthropological research and analysis.
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B.
Reality as Social Process
Reality as Social Process is a major philosophical work by Charles Hartshorne that develops a process-oriented, relational view of reality within the tradition of process theology and metaphysics.
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C.
Fragments of Vernacular Matters
Fragments of Vernacular Matters is an English title commonly used for Petrarch’s influential Italian lyric collection "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta," a cornerstone of Renaissance poetry.
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D.
Theory of Culture Change
Theory of Culture Change is an influential anthropological work that develops Julian Steward’s concept of cultural ecology, explaining how cultures adapt to their environmental and social contexts through multilinear evolution.
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E.
Rethinking Social Inquiry
Rethinking Social Inquiry is a methodological volume in political science that critiques and extends the quantitative, positivist approach of Designing Social Inquiry by advocating for pluralistic, case-based, and mixed-method research strategies.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
academic paper
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scholarly article ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
anthropology
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communication studies ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| contribution |
articulated the need to study language in its social and cultural context
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helped establish ethnography of communication as a major approach to language study ⓘ influenced later research on communicative competence ⓘ influenced the development of discourse-centered approaches in anthropology ⓘ provided a framework for analyzing speech events and speech situations ⓘ |
| describedAs |
foundational work in linguistic anthropology
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foundational work in sociolinguistics ⓘ key text in the ethnography of communication tradition ⓘ |
| field |
anthropological linguistics
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linguistic anthropology ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ |
| genre |
methodological article
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theoretical article ⓘ |
| hasImpact |
contributed to the institutionalization of ethnography of communication as a research paradigm
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highly cited in linguistic anthropology literature ⓘ highly cited in sociolinguistics literature ⓘ shaped theoretical debates about communicative competence ⓘ |
| influenced |
applied linguistics approaches to communicative competence
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ethnography of speaking research ⓘ interactional sociolinguistics ⓘ language and social interaction studies ⓘ research on speech communities ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
communicative competence
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communicative event ⓘ ethnography of communication ⓘ language and culture ⓘ language use in social context ⓘ pragmatics ⓘ speech community ⓘ speech event ⓘ speech situation ⓘ |
| topic |
contextual factors in language use
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methods for studying communication ethnographically ⓘ relationships between language, culture, and society ⓘ rules and norms of speaking ⓘ social meaning of communicative practices ⓘ |
| usedIn |
courses on discourse analysis
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courses on language and culture ⓘ graduate education in linguistic anthropology ⓘ graduate education in sociolinguistics ⓘ |
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