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Living Narrative

Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

By: Elinor Ochs,Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs,Lisa Capps

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Living Narrative

Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

By: Elinor Ochs,Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs,Lisa Capps

This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create selves and communities. Focusing on the ways in which narrative is co-constructed, and on the variety of moral stances embodied in conversation, the authors draw out the instructive inconsistencies of these collaborative narratives, whose contents and ordering are subject to dispute, flux, and discovery. In an eloquent last chapter, written as Capps was waging her final battle with cancer, they turn to unfinished narratives, those stories that will never have a comprehensible end. With a hybrid perspective--part humanities, part social science--their book captures these complexities and fathoms the intricate and potent narratives that live within and among us.

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Harvard University Press

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0674041593

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Culture and Language Development

Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

By: Elinor Ochs

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Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

By: Elinor Ochs

In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex interaction of socialisation and language acquisition in children.

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CUP Archive

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0521348943

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9780521348942

Fast-Forward Family

Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America

By: Elinor Ochs,Tamar Kremer-Sadlik

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Fast-Forward Family

Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America

By: Elinor Ochs,Tamar Kremer-Sadlik

Called Òthe most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conductedÓ by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of 32 dualworker middle class Los Angeles families between 2001 and 2004. The results are startling, and enlightening. Fast-Forward Family shines light on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and the challenges for parents as they try to reconcile ideals regarding what it means to be a good parent, a good worker, and a good spouse. Though there are also moments of connection, affection, and care, itÕs evident that life for 21st century working parents is frenetic, with extended work hours, childrenÕs activities, chores, meals to prepare, errands to run, and bills to pay.

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314

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Univ of California Press

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0520273974

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9780520273979

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

32 Families Open Their Doors

By: Jeanne E. Arnold,Anthony P. Graesch,Elinor Ochs,Enzo Ragazzini

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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

32 Families Open Their Doors

By: Jeanne E. Arnold,Anthony P. Graesch,Elinor Ochs,Enzo Ragazzini

Winner of the 2014 John Collier Jr. Award Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. It is a distant cousin of Material World and Hungry Planet in content and style, but represents a blend of rigorous science and photography that these books can claim. Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people actually live their lives at home. Based on a rigorous, nine-year project at UCLA, this book has appeal not only to scientists but also to all people who share intense curiosity about what goes on at home in their neighborhoods. Many who read the book will see their own lives mirrored in these pages and can reflect on how other people cope with their mountains of possessions and other daily challenges. Readers abroad will be equally fascinated by the contrasts between their own kinds of materialism and the typical American experience. The book will interest a range of designers, builders, and architects as well as scholars and students who research various facets of U.S. and global consumerism, cultural history, and economic history.

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181

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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

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1938770900

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9781938770906

Constructing Panic

The Discourse of Agoraphobia

By: Lisa Capps,Elinor Ochs

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Constructing Panic

The Discourse of Agoraphobia

By: Lisa Capps,Elinor Ochs

Offering a novel analysis of a patient’s experience of agoraphobia, this collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist proposes a view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. It opens up potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by establishing a framework for therapeutic intervention.

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Harvard University Press

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0674165497

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Culture and Language Development

Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

By: Elinor Ochs

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Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

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In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex interaction of socialisation and language acquisition in children.

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Acquiring conversational competence

By: Elinor Ochs,Bambi B. Schieffelin

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Acquiring conversational competence

By: Elinor Ochs,Bambi B. Schieffelin

First published in 1983, this book represents a substantial body of detailed research on children’s language and communication, and more generally on the nature of interactive spoken discourse. It looks at areas of competence often examined in young children’s speech have that have not been described for adults — leading to insights not only in the character of adult conversation but also the process of acquiring this competence. The authors set forward strategies for conversing at different stage of life, while also relating these strategies to, and formulating hypotheses concerning, the dynamics of language variation and change.

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Routledge

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1315401606

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Living Narrative

Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

By: Elinor Ochs,Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs,Lisa Capps

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Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

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Constructing Panic

The Discourse of Agoraphobia

By: Lisa Capps,Elinor Ochs

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The Discourse of Agoraphobia

By: Lisa Capps,Elinor Ochs

Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative that both describes their experience and locks them into it. Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the authors probe Meg's stories for constructions of emotions, actions, and events. They illustrate how Meg uses grammar and narrative structure to create and recreate emotional experiences that maintain her agoraphobic identity. In this work Capps and Ochs propose a startling new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. Constructing Panic opens up the largely overlooked potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by offering a unique framework for therapeutic intervention. Readers will find in these pages hope for managing panic through careful attention to how we tell the story of our lives.

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Harvard University Press

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0674029186

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9780674029187

The Feminization of America

How Women's Values Are Changing Our Public and Private Lives

By: Elinor Lenz,Barbara Myerhoff

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The Feminization of America

How Women's Values Are Changing Our Public and Private Lives

By: Elinor Lenz,Barbara Myerhoff

A speculation on the dramatic changes in American culture brought on by the fact that women are assuming more and more power in contemporary society.

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Tarcher

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0874774152

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9780874774153

Acquiring conversational competence

By: Elinor Ochs,Bambi B. Schieffelin

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By: Elinor Ochs,Bambi B. Schieffelin

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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

32 Families Open Their Doors

By: Jeanne E. Arnold,Anthony P. Graesch,Elinor Ochs,Enzo Ragazzini

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32 Families Open Their Doors

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Book's by Elinor Ochs

Living Narrative

Living Narrative

Culture and Language Development

Culture and Language Development

Fast-Forward Family

Fast-Forward Family

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

Constructing Panic

Constructing Panic

Culture and Language Development

Culture and Language Development

Acquiring conversational competence

Acquiring conversational competence

Living Narrative

Living Narrative

Constructing Panic

Constructing Panic

The Feminization of America

The Feminization of America

Acquiring conversational competence

Acquiring conversational competence

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

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