Analysing practical and professional texts a naturalistic approach /

• Main Author: Watson, Rod.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
• Series: Directions in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
• Subjects: Social sciences > Methodology.; Social structure.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Research.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage. Richly illustrated and theoretically sophisticated, this book will be of interest not only to those with interests in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to social scientists and anthropologi...

Table of Contents:

• The ethnomethodological analysis of texts and reading
• "Going for brothers" in black American speech : making textual sense of analytic observations of black ghetto culture in the U.S.A.
• The textual representation of Nacirema culture
• The textual incarnation of sociological analysis : the case of Erving Goffman's writings.