Publications

Publication details [#26765]

Wieder, D. Lawrence and Steven Pratt. 1993. The case of Saying a few words and Talking for another among the Osage people: 'Public speaking' as an object of ethnography. Research on Language and Social Interaction 26 (4) : 353–408.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | public speech

Language as a subject

Languages, Amerindian

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study examines how Amerindian Osage public speaking practices are initiated, managed, sustained and concluded as a recognizable, collectively witnessable ensemble.