ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION

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ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION
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• An ethnography of communication includes
  descriptions of all explicit and implicit norms
  for communication, detailing aspects of verbal,
  nonverbal, and social parameters of interaction

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Components

• For Dell Hymes
• 1) Participants, minimally speaker and addressee
• 2) Code used by interlocutors
• 3) Channel (speaking/writing/nonverbal signals)
• 4) Setting or context
• 5) Form or genre (conversation, folktale, chant,
  debate)
• 6) Topics and attitudes

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• For Bonvillain, organizing question in analysis
  of communicative event What are the
  functions of speech?
• All cultures provide rules for appropriate
  communicative interaction in any given context
• Behaviors that should occur
• Behaviors that may occur
• Behaviors that should not occur

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Contextual Components

• Setting
• Participants
• Terms of Address (TLN/FN)
• Pronouns (V/T)
• Kinship terms (Aunt/Uncle)
• Honorifics
• Topics and Goals