Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. The Ethnography of Speaking and the Ethnography of Doing 11
7. 3. Classifying Speech Acts 37
8. 4. The Structure of Speech Acts 69
9. 5. Behavioral Counts of Speech Acts 97
10. Footnotes 125
11. References 129
12. Appendix A: Transcript of conversation in one household 5:05 P.M. to 5:19 P.M. 139
13. Appendix B: Speaking about the day's events 149