1. ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION

2. An ethnography of communication includes descriptions of all explicit and implicit norms for communication, detailing aspects of verbal, nonverbal, and social parameters of interaction

3. 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

4. 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

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