Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Toward an Understanding of Voice

Abstract

Part 1 Ethnography: what is ethnography? education ethnology. Part 2 Linguistics: speech and language - on the origins and foundations of inequality among speakers report from an underdeveloped country - toward linguistic competence in the United States. Part 3 Narrative and inequality: narrative thinking and story-telling rights - a folklorist'sclue to a critique of education narrative form as a grammar of experience oral patterns as a resource in children's writing - an ethnopoetic note ethnopoetics and socioloinguistics - three stories by African-American children Bernstein and poetics inequality in language - taking for granted.