Talk and Taxonomy
A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors
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The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those categories.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:8] 1980. x, 125 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. v
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List of Tables | p. viii
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List of Figures | p. viii
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Part One. Programmatics: the logical and methodological adequacy of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology as sociologies attempting to account for cultural competence
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1. Introduction | p. 1
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2. Regularities, rules and instructions: three sociologies | p. 7
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3. Ethnosemantics as semantic sociology and ethnomethodology as interpretive sociology | p. 19
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4. Leaving out the interpreter's work: a methodological critique of ethnosemantics based on ethnomethodology | p. 27
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5. Conclusion | p. 47
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Part Two. Data: using the same materials, an ethnosemantic study, and an ethnomethodological study, of cultural competence
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6. Introduction | p. 51
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7. Terms for Canadian doctors: ethnosemantics and taxonomy | p. 55
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8. Terms for Canadian doctors: ethnomethodology and talk | p. 67
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9. Conclusion | p. 81
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Epilogue: the question of interpretive method | p. 85
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Footnotes | p. 89
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Appendix | p. 119
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List of Tables
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Table 1. One Line From the Chart of Reference Terms for Lawyers | p. 55
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Table 2. Chart of Reference Terms for Canadian Doctors | p. 58
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Table 3. Code of Semantic Dimensions | p. 60
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List of Figures
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Figure 1. The Semiotic Triangle in Ethnosemantics | p. 32
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Figure 2. Partial Taxonomy of Terms for Canadian Doctors | p. 63
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General