Alessandro Duranti

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Alessandro Duranti

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According to Wikipedia, Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and served as Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA from 2009 to 2016. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Education Duranti was trained in linguistics at the Sapienza University of Rome , where he studied general linguistics and ethnolinguistics with , and at the University of Southern California , where he specialized in Bantu languages under Larry Hyman while working with Elinor Ochs on the conversational foundations of Italian word order patterns. His dissertation, The Fono: A Samoan Speech Event, based on 13 months of fieldwork in Falefā, on the island of 'Upolu in Samoa, focused on the language and social organization of the meeting of the local 'council' that he analyzed by extending Dell Hymes' Speech Event Model to include speechmaking across speakers and situations.

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Alessandro Duranti's Published Works

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Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon (1992) (914)
Rethinking Context: An Introduction (1992) (683)
A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (2004) (314)
The Handbook of Language Socialization (2011) (313)
The audience as co-author: An introduction (1986) (255)
Husserl, intersubjectivity and anthropology (2010) (253)
Linguistic anthropology : a reader (2009) (233)
Universal and Culture‐Specific Properties of Greetings (1997) (195)
Linguistic Anthropology: Linguistic diversity (1997) (188)
Language and Bodies in Social Space: Samoan Ceremonial Greetings (1992) (182)
Agency in Language (2005) (172)
From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (1994) (137)
Transcripts, Like Shadows on a Wall (2006) (135)
Linguistic Anthropology: Acknowledgments (1997) (133)
Language as Culture in U.S. Anthropology (2003) (121)
Intentions, language, and social action in a Samoan context (1988) (120)
Left-dislocation in Italian conversation (1979) (107)
Truth and Intentionality: An Ethnographic Critique (1993) (105)
On the Object Relation in Bantu (1982) (99)
Key terms in language and culture (2001) (90)
The Samoan fono, a sociolinguistic study (1981) (86)
The Relevance of Husserl's Theory to Language Socialization (2009) (83)
Narrating the political self in a campaign for U.S. Congress (2006) (65)
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics: Linguistic anthropology: the study of language as a non-neutral medium (2011) (63)
The social ontology of intentions (2006) (60)
The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others (2014) (55)
The social meaning of subject pronouns in Italian conversation (1984) (53)
Indexical Speech across Samoan Communities (1997) (51)
Further Reflections on Reading Other Minds (2008) (47)
Genitive Constructions and Agency in Samoan Discourse (1990) (43)
Discourse and culture (2011) (35)
Object clitic pronouns in Bantu and the topicality hierarchy (2010) (33)
Syncretic Literacy in a Samoan American Family (1997) (28)
Samoan speechmaking across social events: One genre in and out of a fono (1983) (27)
Rôle central de la valvule pré-ostiale de la veine saphène interne dans la genèse des varices tronculaires des membres inférieurs : démonstration diagnostique par écho-doppler couleur. Discussion (1995) (25)
Relative clause structure, relative clause perception, and the change from SOV to SVO (1979) (23)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Ethnography of speaking: toward a linguistics of the praxis (1988) (22)
Language Socialization and Verbal Improvisation (2011) (22)
Ethnography of Speaking: Toward a Linguistics of the Praxis (2008) (22)
Syncretic Literacy: Multiculturalism in Samoan American Families (1996) (20)
Attention, ritual glitches, and attentional pull: the president and the queen (2015) (19)
Polyphonic discourse: Overlapping in Samoan ceremonial greetings (1997) (17)
Four properties of speech-in-interaction and the notion of translocutionary act (1991) (15)
Linguistic Anthropology: Transcription: from writing to digitized images (1997) (15)
La valvule pré-ostiale de la veine saphene externe : Varices atypiques jambières dues à l'incontinence (fonctionnelle) de la jonction saphéno-poplitée. Etude par écho-doppler couleur (1997) (14)
On theories and models (2005) (12)
L'oralité avec impertinence : Ambivalence par rapport à l'écrit chez les orateurs samoans et les musiciens de jazz américains (2009) (11)
Linguistic Anthropology: Name index (1997) (10)
Performance and Encoding of Agency in Historical-Natural Languages (2001) (10)
The Force of Language and its Temporal Unfolding (2009) (10)
Code Switching and Conflict Management in Samoan Multiparty Interaction (1990) (10)
A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality (2006) (9)
La etnografía del habla: hacia una lingüística de la praxis (1992) (9)
Linguistic Anthropology: Preface (1997) (8)
Anthropology and Linguistics (2012) (8)
Heteroglossia in Samoan Oratory (1992) (8)
Honorific Resources for the Construction of Hierarchy in Samoan and Pohnpeian (2006) (7)
ON THE NOTION OF "DIRECT OBJECT" (2020) (7)
Syncretic Literacy: Multiculturalism in Samoan American Families. Research Report No. 16. (1996) (6)
An Historical Perspective on Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology (2000) (6)
Beyond Bakhtin or the dialogic imagination in academia (1993) (6)
Linguistic Anthropology: The scope of linguistic anthropology (1997) (5)
Filtres caves temporaires : notre expérience analyse préliminaire de 24 cas (1993) (4)
Phonological and cultural innovations in the speech of Samoans in Southern California (2000) (4)
On the future of anthropology: Fundraising, the job market and the corporate turn (2013) (4)
Linguistic Anthropology: Ethnographic methods (1997) (4)
L'oralité avec impertinence (2009) (4)
Linguistic Anthropology: Units of participation (1997) (4)
The Anthropology of Intentions: The invention of promising in the Samoan translation of the Bible (2015) (3)
Haya grammatical structure : phonology, grammar, discourse (1977) (3)
midwives, godmothers, and witches: female body and identity in the Italian south (1993) (2)
Linguistic Anthropology: Meaning in linguistic forms (1997) (2)
Speaking as social action (1997) (1)
Acquisition of Genitive Agents in Samoan. (1989) (1)
Intentions and their modifications: a lesson from Husserl (2015) (0)
Transcription conventions for English examples (2015) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: Conversational exchanges (1997) (0)
Oralité et écriture (2016) (0)
Language and Creativity: Improvisation (2020) (0)
Speaker intentions and the role of the audience in a political campaign in the US (2015) (0)
A dialogue on intentions (2015) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: References (1997) (0)
Index to Volume 22, 1998 (1968) (0)
The avoidance of intentional discourse: a Samoan case study (2015) (0)
A sense of the other: from intentionality to intersubjectivity (2015) (0)
Book reviews (2008) (0)
Jazz Etiquette (0)
EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
The Semiotics of Cooperation (2022) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: Theories of culture (1997) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: Conclusions (1997) (0)
The globe artichoke (1972) (0)
Rethinking anti-intentionalism (2015) (0)
Introduction to the CLIC Conference, May 19, 19951 (1996) (0)
The Anthropology of Intentions: Intentionality and truth, revisited (2015) (0)
In and out of intersubjective attunement (2017) (0)
Orality with Attitude (2009) (0)
Attention, ritual glitches, and attentional pull: the president and the queen (2014) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: Appendix: Practical tips on recording interaction (1997) (0)
The Anthropology of Intentions: Opacity of other minds: local theories revisited (2015) (0)
The intentional continuum (2015) (0)
Transcription conventions and abbreviations used in the Samoan examples (2015) (0)
Intentions in speaking and acting: the Standard Theory and its foes (2015) (0)
Action and its parts (2017) (0)
turn On the future of anthropology: Fundraising, the job market and the corporate (2013) (0)
Not being boring and other challenges for anthropologists as popular writers (2020) (0)
An Historical Perspective on 7 , No . 2 Fall-Winter 2000-2001 Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology (2004) (0)
Editors' introduction (2005) (0)
The Anthropology of Intentions: References (2015) (0)
"Lauga" and "Talanoaga": Structure and Variation in the Language of a Samoan Speech Event. Sociolinguistic Working Paper Number 72. (1980) (0)
Ingjerd Hoëm, Even Hovdhaugen, & Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen, Kupu mai te Tūtolu: Tokelau oral literature. Oslo: University Press/The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1992. Pp. iii + 196 (with 6 color Plates). (1994) (0)

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