M Eleanor Nevins
Biographic Data
| ID | 212509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Eleanor Nevins |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Nevins |
| SIGNATURE | NEVINS M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethnography of Speaking and Communication
Ethnography of communication, formerly ethnography of speaking, is the founding theory and method of linguistic anthropology. It was launched in the 1960s by Dell Hymes and John Gumperz, in collaboration with a cohort of linguists, sociologists, ordinary language philosophers, and anthropologists. The ethnography of communication adapts key ideas and methods from Boasian anthropology, from structural linguistics and from conversation analysis to …
Engaging Native American Publics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Collaborative Key
Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance
Speaking in the mirror of the other: Dialectics of intersubjectivity and temporality in Western Apache discourse
Intertextuality and misunderstanding
The Bible in two keys: Traditionalism and Evangelical Christianity on the Fort Apache reservation
We Have Always Had the Bible”: Christianity and the Composition of White Mountain Apache Heritage
In this article we examine claims made by some Apache religious specialists that Apaches, in their ceremonies and stories, have always had the Bible and that the Judeo-Christian Bible is an authentic part of the Apache way of life. We show that the Apache discourse of Biblical authenticity does not threaten to replace Apache “tradition” as much as destabilize mainstream Western understandings of what the Bible is, and what alienable and inalienab…
We Have Always Had the Bible
They live in Lonesome Dove: Media and contemporary Western Apache place-naming practices
This article treats a place-naming genre among residents of the White Mountain Apache reservation in which people use English-language mass media discourse to name newly constructed neighborhoods on the reservation, usually with humorous effect. It is argued that these names do not represent simple assimilation to mainstream discursive norms. Instead, they represent the deployment of media discourse according to locally defined speech genres and …
Learning to Listen: Confronting Two Meanings of Language Loss in the Contemporary White Mountain Apache Speech Community
This article describes a controversy that emerged around a language maintenance program with which the author was involved on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. It argues that the controversy had its source in conflicts between two language ideologies, each informing a different pedagogical model within the local speech community. One had its locus in the educational institutions, and the other was more broadly dispersed throughout…
Learning to Listen: Confronting Two Meanings of Language Loss in the Contemporary White Mountain Apache Speech Community
This article describes a controversy that emerged around a language maintenance program with which the author was involved on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. It argues that the controversy had its source in conflicts between two language ideologies, each informing a different pedagogical model within the local speech community. One had its locus in the educational institutions, and the other was more broadly dispersed throughout…
They live in Lonesome Dove: Media and contemporary Western Apache place-naming practices
This article treats a place-naming genre among residents of the White Mountain Apache reservation in which people use English-language mass media discourse to name newly constructed neighborhoods on the reservation, usually with humorous effect. It is argued that these names do not represent simple assimilation to mainstream discursive norms. Instead, they represent the deployment of media discourse according to locally defined speech genres and …
We Have Always Had the Bible”: Christianity and the Composition of White Mountain Apache Heritage
In this article we examine claims made by some Apache religious specialists that Apaches, in their ceremonies and stories, have always had the Bible and that the Judeo-Christian Bible is an authentic part of the Apache way of life. We show that the Apache discourse of Biblical authenticity does not threaten to replace Apache “tradition” as much as destabilize mainstream Western understandings of what the Bible is, and what alienable and inalienab…
The Bible in two keys: Traditionalism and Evangelical Christianity on the Fort Apache reservation
We Have Always Had the Bible
Speaking in the mirror of the other: Dialectics of intersubjectivity and temporality in Western Apache discourse
Learning to Listen: Confronting Two Meanings of Language Loss in the Contemporary White Mountain Apache Speech Community
This article describes a controversy that emerged around a language maintenance program with which the author was involved on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. It argues that the controversy had its source in conflicts between two language ideologies, each informing a different pedagogical model within the local speech community. One had its locus in the educational institutions, and the other was more broadly dispersed throughout…
They live in Lonesome Dove: Media and contemporary Western Apache place-naming practices
This article treats a place-naming genre among residents of the White Mountain Apache reservation in which people use English-language mass media discourse to name newly constructed neighborhoods on the reservation, usually with humorous effect. It is argued that these names do not represent simple assimilation to mainstream discursive norms. Instead, they represent the deployment of media discourse according to locally defined speech genres and …
We Have Always Had the Bible”: Christianity and the Composition of White Mountain Apache Heritage
In this article we examine claims made by some Apache religious specialists that Apaches, in their ceremonies and stories, have always had the Bible and that the Judeo-Christian Bible is an authentic part of the Apache way of life. We show that the Apache discourse of Biblical authenticity does not threaten to replace Apache “tradition” as much as destabilize mainstream Western understandings of what the Bible is, and what alienable and inalienab…
We Have Always Had the Bible
Intertextuality and misunderstanding
The Bible in two keys: Traditionalism and Evangelical Christianity on the Fort Apache reservation
Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance
Speaking in the mirror of the other: Dialectics of intersubjectivity and temporality in Western Apache discourse
Engaging Native American Publics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Collaborative Key
Ethnography of Speaking and Communication
Ethnography of communication, formerly ethnography of speaking, is the founding theory and method of linguistic anthropology. It was launched in the 1960s by Dell Hymes and John Gumperz, in collaboration with a cohort of linguists, sociologists, ordinary language philosophers, and anthropologists. The ethnography of communication adapts key ideas and methods from Boasian anthropology, from structural linguistics and from conversation analysis to …
Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropological linguistics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)