Some sources of cultural variability in the regulation of talk
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- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Language in Society
- Vol. 5 (1) , 81-95
Abstract
Recent efforts to analyze the structure of talk have focused primarily on the conversation of persons from a white middle-class background. This paper compares the way in which talk is regulated, both verbally and non-verbally, in Anglo interaction with the regulation of talk among Indians of the Warm Springs Reservation, in central Oregon. The purpose of this comparison is to begin to assess the sources and nature of cultural variability in this one aspect of language use. (Ethnography of communication, conversational analysis, nonverbal communication, North American Indians.)Keywords
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