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Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the
identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life.
Michael Silverstein (1945-2020) was at the forefront of the study
of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his
conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures. Focusing not
just on what people say but how we say it, Silverstein shows how
discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that
discourse far exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming
societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity.
Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose,
Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples - from
brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau's pantomime, the class-laced
banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of
wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on
forebears in linguistics and anthropology while offering his
distinctive semiotic approach, redefining how we think about
language and culture.
Systems-centered therapy (SCT) brings an innovative approach to
clinical practice. Developed by the author, SCT introduces a theory
and set of methods that put systems ideas into practice. The
collection of articles in this book illustrates the array of
clinical applications in which SCT is now used. Each chapter
introduces particular applications of SCT theory or methods with
specific examples from practice that help the theory and methods
come alive for the reader across a variety of clinical contexts.
This book will be especially useful for therapists and clinical
practitioners interested in sampling SCT, for those who learn best
with clinical examples, and for anyone with a serious interest in
learning the systems-centered approach.
Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the
identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life.
Michael Silverstein (1945-2020) was at the forefront of the study
of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his
conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures. Focusing not
just on what people say but how we say it, Silverstein shows how
discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that
discourse far exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming
societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity.
Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose,
Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples - from
brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau's pantomime, the class-laced
banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of
wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on
forebears in linguistics and anthropology while offering his
distinctive semiotic approach, redefining how we think about
language and culture.
Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read?
Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated
anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein
and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge
ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive
practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the
constructional process reveals "culture" to those who can interpret
it.
Eleven original essays of "natural history" range in focus from
nuptial poetry of insult among Wolof griots to case-based teaching
methods in first-year law-school classrooms. Stage by stage, they
give an idea of the cultural processes of "entextualization" and
"contextualization" of discourse that they so richly illustrate.
The contributors' varied backgrounds include anthropology,
psychiatry, education, literary criticism, and law, making this
collection invaluable not only to anthropologists and linguists,
but to all analysts of culture.
It s a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style
matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed
by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate s every slip,
gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication
in American presidential politics, focusing on what political
insiders call "message." Message, Michael Lempert and Michael
Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual s positions on the
issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees
as the candidate. Lempert and Silverstein examine some of the
revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches,
and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to
have a life of their own. From the pandering "Flip-Flopper" to the
self-reliant "Maverick," the authors demonstrate how these figures
are fashioned out of the verbal, gestural, sartorial, behavioral as
well as linguistic matter that comprises political
communication."
Make profits soar by converting casual consumers into apostles
Rocket showcases the stories of sixteen entrepreneurs. It draws out
the lessons that you can apply Monday morning in your business.
Authentic and specific Boston Consulting Group case studies about
the rocketeers/inventors who created brand legacies. For everyone
who wants a business to grow faster than a competitor-this
motivating book gives you a step-by-step approach to growth, share
gain, and higher profits. Michael Silverstein is a senior partner
and managing director of the consumer practice at BCG. Dylan Bolden
is a senior partner and managing director at BCG. Rune Jacobsen is
a senior partner and managing director at BCG Rohan Sajdeh is a
senior partner and managing director at BCG.
The billionaire creator of a financial news empire wants to be
elected Mayor of Philadelphia. He looks like a shoe-in until the
man who runs his stock market music department is murdered. What
follows is a manic romp that sucks in the world's wackiest
detective (who now bills himself a freelance intellectual), a
financial poet praying for the big break, a head hunter prone to
extreme sexual expressiveness, a Philadelphia lawyer who will take
anyone as a client, a homicide detective seeking true love, a
municipal repair crew run amok, and a parrot with a tendency to
become offensive. They all come together in Murder At Bernstein's,
from the five-star reviewed author of Fifteen Feet Beneath
Manhattan and The Bellman's Revenge.
Ambrose Bierce's DEVIL'S DICTIONARY was a delightful collection of
quirky definitions, naughty verse and satirical pieces skewering an
overblown and profoundly corrupt Gilded Age. Michael Silverstein's
new DEVIL'S DICTIONARY OF WALL STREET applies the same approach to
today's overblown markets and their puffed up denizens. Its
hundreds of painfully funny definitions, poems, and encounters
featuring Selig Cartwright, Goldman Sachs washroom attendant, will
make you laugh-and think.
Reviewers of this five-star comic novel have been ecstatic about
its kinky humor, calling "Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan"
"hysterically funny and outrageous," and "a very funny sci-fi,
gothic horror." Michael Silverstein's book is a wild riff about
some very strange doings under the streets of Gotham in 1973. A
criminal society has taken root there along with a
pollution-spawned new chain of life, both of which must be
destroyed by an elite, secretly created military unit headed by a
guy planning a coup d'etat. All that stands in the way of New York
City descending into utter chaos, the country getting a military
dictator, and the destruction of our present natural order, is a
bumbling alternative newspaper reporter with landlord problems, and
a pistol-toting feminist with anger issues. Joe Gandelman,
Editor-In-Chief in Arts & Entertainment at The Moderate Voice
wrote in his review of Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan: "The only
question in reading this book is exactly where has Silverstein been
HIDING all these years as a fiction writer? He is a GREAT writer
and enthralling storyteller whose writing packs a hay-maker punch
with vividly constructed scenes and punchy, realistic dialogue - a
writer who easily elicits a chuckle or two (or more)... I could
easily see him selling a script to Hollywood."
Morey Caine fought sewer-spawned horrors in Fifteen Feet Beneath
Manhattan. Now in The Bellman's Revenge he confronts a demented
scientist and a crazed Indian shaman, both seeking vengeance in a
way that taps into the secret fear of every traveler. Morey
himself, along with a former minor league ballplayer, must travel
into the heart of American darkness in an expiring VW Rabbit to
meet the monstrous challenge.
As Michael Silverstein discusses in his introduction to this new
edition, the two foundational essays presented here are culminating
moments in the scholarly history of North American indigenous
peoples’ languages and cultures. Franz Boas’s
“Introduction” essay (1911) initiates readers into the
collection of grammatical sketches contained in the multiple
volumes of the Handbook of American Indian Languages, underscoring
critical issues of language in human cognition and its role in
sociocultural variation. Twenty years earlier, J. W. Powell
published “Indian Linguistic Families of America North of
Mexico” to accompany his Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of
American Ethnology (BAE) of the Smithsonian
Institution. Powell interpreted the BAE’s vast collection
of vocabularies through a classificatory perspective like those of
geology, geography, and biology, thus
organizing understanding of the hundreds of attested
languages as members of linguistic families. Originally published
in the same volume in 1966, these two essays form a cornerstone of
modern indigenous language studies.
If politics as practiced is talk, then how does a political figure
- especially an American president - talk politics? If someone can
be all style and no substance, is there any actual political
substance to style? "Talking Politics" looks at the alpha and omega
of presidential image, its highs - Lincoln at Gettysburg - and lows
- "W" at any microphone - demystifying the spun mists of political
"message" on which an institution like the American presidency has
always depended.
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