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" Performance here is seen as a creative and emergent accomplishment . . . the deepest problem in the social disciplines |is to understand] the dynamic interplay between the social, conventional, ready-made in social life and the individual, creative, and... "
Improvised Dialogues: Emergence and Creativity in Conversation
by Robert Keith Sawyer - 2003 - 262 pages
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Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking

Richard Bauman, Joel Sherzer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 536 pages
...society and culture, and this takes us to the heart of the deepest problem in the social disciplines: the dynamic interplay between the social, conventional,...creative, and emergent qualities of human existence. In the ethnography of speaking, no less than in other sectors of anthropology, the illumination and...
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Pretending at Home: Early Development in a Sociocultural Context

Wendy L. Haight, Professor and Gamble-Skogmo Chair in Child Welfare and Youth Policy Wendy L Haight, Peggy Jo Miller, Professor Emerita of Psychology Peggy J Miller - Psychology - 1993 - 168 pages
...is articulated in more general terms by anthropologists Bauman and Sherzer (1989). They claim that "the dynamic interplay between the social, conventional,...creative and emergent qualities of human existence" (p. xix) is a crucial problem in the social disciplines. These kindred perspectives suggest that our...
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Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa

Yasir Suleiman - Africa, North - 1996 - 206 pages
...which the Libyans lack here is an understanding of performance in its sense as social praxis, that is, "the dynamic interplay between the social, conventional,...and emergent qualities of human existence" (Bauman and Sherzer, 1989: XIX). The second aspect of performance which Bauman and Sherzer highlight go beyond...
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 3

Electronic journals - 1999 - 614 pages
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Key Terms in Language & Culture

Alessandro Duranti - Social Science - 2001 - 304 pages
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Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago

Marcia Farr - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 398 pages
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