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A Ritual For Attempting Leave-Taking In Colombia, Kristine Fitch
A Ritual For Attempting Leave-Taking In Colombia, Kristine Fitch
Kristine Muñoz
This article presents a conversational enactment of a leave-taking ritual, an archetype for Colombian spoken life, for the purpose of conversational analysis. This conversational enactment is drawn from audiotaped, naturally-occurring conversation recorded in Colombia in 1987. The purpose of analyzing this conversation is both to describe a conversational sequence which performs a symbolic activity among Colombians during leave-taking from social gatherings, and to elucidate what ethnographic information may (and may not) emerge from conversation analysis. The author of this article hopes to demonstrate that in this speech pattern an interpersonal ideology is revealed which revolves around the crucial importance of …
The Interplay Of Linguistic Universals And Cultural Knowledge In Personal Address: Colombian Madre Terms, Kristine Fitch
The Interplay Of Linguistic Universals And Cultural Knowledge In Personal Address: Colombian Madre Terms, Kristine Fitch
Kristine Muñoz
Proposes that the question that communication theories seek to answer is what kinds of resources and knowledge must be drawn upon for communication to take place. The question may usefully be pursued through the investigation of the personal address. Previous research; A study of `Madre' terms in Colombia; Results; Conclusion