Name: Seldom Ask, Never Tell By Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech)
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Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia by Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech)

Puckett takes a new look at the relationship between language, society, and economics, by examining how people talk about work in a rural Appalachian community. Through careful analysis of conversations in casual yet commercial contexts, she finds that the construction and maintenance of this discourse is essential to the community's socio-economic relationships. The volume will appeal to linguists, anthropologists, and scholars in communications and Appalachian studies.

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By focusing on her empirical data from Ash Creek, Puckett offers a cogent interpretation and defense of speaking practices familiar to others who study Appalachia. She thus provides a baseline for future study of variation and change in speaking patterns within the region. * Language in Society *
Puckett offers comprehensive and revealing interpretations of the range of communicative practices (verbal and nonverbal) through which Ash Creek residents share labour, exchange goods and services, and access commodities and jobs from outside the community. * Language in Society *
... an important, long-needed work that enables us to conceptualize Appalachian speech not only in terms of dialect or traditional aesthetic resources, but also according to characteristc ways of speaking and the ideology of pragmatics that informs them. * Language in Society *
... a challenging book, drawing extensively and effectively on current anthropological theory and terminology. It will stretch the reader's thinking and penetrate the superficial analysis that has characterized all but a few works on mountain speech ... the author deftly extracts cultural meaning from everyday interactions. * Journal of Appalachian Studies *
Ground-breaking ... rich in data ... No book published in the past generation offers a greater wealth of insight on the functions of speech patterns in traditional Appalachia. * Journal of Appalachian Studies *

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NPB9780195102772

ISBN 13

9780195102772

ISBN 10

0195102770

Title

Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia by Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech)

Author

Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech)

Series

Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

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New

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Hardback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

2000-12-07

Number of pages

326

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Seldom Ask, Never Tell Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech)

Seldom Ask, Never Tell by Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech)

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Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia by Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech)

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