Firth The British Sources of Ethnography of Communication and Conversation Analysis
Bronislaw Malinowski and John Rupert Firth
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v32i1p23-38Keywords:
History of Linguistics, Ethnography of Communication, Conversation Analysis, B. Malinowski, J. R. FirthAbstract
This article explores the British foundations of the ethnography of communication and conversation analysis. This topic has hardly been tackled by historians of linguistics and should be of interest for post-graduates in the language sciences. We will examine how B. Malinowski and J. R. Firth proposed the first sketches of crucial notions for ethnography of communication, such as variation and repertory, as well as notions for conversation analysis, such as turn-taking and sequence organization. Two steps have been identified: (i) Malinowski and Firth outlined the concept of context of situation in the 1930s; (ii) Firth set up the categories for the context of situation in the 1950s.
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