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Speech Codes
Comm Theory - Speech Codes
Term | Definition |
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ethnography | the work of a naturalist who watches, listens, and records communicative conduct in its natural setting in order to understand a culture's concept web of meanings |
speech code | a historically enacted, socially constructed system of terms, meanings, premises, and rules pertaining to communicative conduct |
rhetoric | both the discovery of truth and persuasive appeal |
honor | a code that grants worth to an individual on the basis of adherence to community values |
dignity | the worth an individual has by virtue of being a human being |
totemizing ritual | a careful performance of a structured sequence of actions that pays homage to a sacred object |
performance ethnography | a research methodology committed to performance as both the subject and method of research, to researchers' work being performance, and to reports of field-work being actable |