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Talk and Taxonomy: A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors
Peter Eglin
[Pragmatics & Beyond I:8] 1980
► pp. vii–vii

Table of contents

Prefacev

List of Tablesviii

List of Figuresviii

Part One. Programmatics: the logical and methodological adequacy of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology as sociologies attempting to account for cultural competence1

1. Introduction1

2. Regularities, rules and instructions: three sociologies7

3. Ethnosemantics as semantic sociology and ethnomethodology as interpretive sociology19

4. Leaving out the interpreter's work: a methodological critique of ethnosemantics based on ethnomethodology27

5. Conclusion47

Part Two. Data: using the same materials, an ethnosemantic study, and an ethnomethodological study, of cultural competence51

6. Introduction51

7. Terms for Canadian doctors: ethnosemantics and taxonomy55

8. Terms for Canadian doctors: ethnomethodology and talk67

9. Conclusion81

Epilogue: the question of interpretive method85

Footnotes89

References95

Appendix119

List of Tables

Table 1. One Line From the Chart of Reference Terms for Lawyers55

Table 2. Chart of Reference Terms for Canadian Doctors58

Table 3. Code of Semantic Dimensions60

List of Figures

Figure 1. The Semiotic Triangle in Ethnosemantics32

Figure 2. Partial Taxonomy of Terms for Canadian Doctors63

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