Semiotics and Fieldwork

by Peter K. Manning

Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis have traditionally been thought to be diametric opposites. But in this provocative analysis, these diverse methods of qualitative research are demonstrated to be complementary. The author reveals that the formalism of semiotics adds breadth and depth to the particularism of traditional fieldwork; similarly, the many details of ethnographic description give semiotic analysis a more realistic perspective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803926405
• ISBN13: 9780803926400
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 3.5" x 10.3"