Language, Linguistics, and Semiotics

African Words, African Voices

Critical Practices in Oral History

Edited by Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen

Analyzing Cultures

An Introduction and Handbook

Marcel Danesi and Paul Perron

Creatures of Politics

Media, Message, and the American Presidency

Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein

The Drunken King, or, The Origin of the State

Luc de Heusch, Translated and annotated by Roy Willis

The Epic of Son-Jara

A West African Tradition

Notes, Translation, and New Introduction by John William Johnson, Text by Fa-Digi Sisòkò

Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity

A Translation of Andrea de Jorio’s La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano

Andrea de Jorio, Translated by Adam Kendon

The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture

Barry Hallen

He-Said-She-Said

Talk as Social Organization among Black Children

Marjorie Harness Goodwin

Jokes and Targets

Christie Davies

Narratives in Society

A Performer-Centered Study of Narration

Linda Dégh

Passing the Time in Ballymenone

Henry Glassie

The Puzzle Instinct

The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life

Marcel Danesi

Rethinking Writing

Roy Harris

The Semiotics of Performance

Marco De Marinis, Translated by Áine O’Healy

Signs in Society

Studies in Semiotic Anthropology

Richard J. Parmentier

Speaking for the Chief

Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory

Kwesi Yankah

Telephone Conversation

Robert Hopper