Toward Ethnographies of Communication
Theory of language
Investigate
Kind of data
Use of language in context situacion
Ethnography of Communication
Aim
Keep the multiple hierarchy of relations among messages and contexts in view.
Linguistic strata
Distinguish
By the twin criteria of "diversification" and "neutralization".
Discern patter proper to speech activity
Sociolinguistics in ethnography of comunication
Contributes
The general study of communication through the study of the organization of verbal means and the ends they serve.
Surface structures of sentences
It is a matter of formatives
Referential
Stylistic
Conjoining of structures
Is
It opens up an additional sphere of
significant choice.
The sentences that trouble syntactic analysis
Are
Subject to interpretation and select the first instance on the dimensions of social context and speech style.
The methodology of context-sensitive grammar
Requires
Features used in contexts to have been previously introduced.
Also
Any analysis that requires social features in the contexts of forms is evidence of the need for a prior analysis of the social features.