Ethnography

This is a branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies.

It is us used to collect empirical data on human societies and cultures through observation, interviews and questionairies and it aims to describe the nature of those who are studied.

Ethnography of Communication

• The Ethnography of communication (EOC) is a method of discourse analysis in linguistics, which draws on the anthropological field of ethnography. Unlike ethnography proper, though, it takes both language and culture to be constitutive as well as constructive.
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• This term is intended to indicate the scope of ethnographic studies in basis  and communicative in the range and kind of patterned complexity with which they deal.
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• For the scope it is needed fresh kinds of data, it is needed to investigate directly the use of language in contexts of situation in order to distinguish patterns of speech activity, from different patterns that deal with grammar, personality, social structure, etc.

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Ethnography Sketches

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