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Language, communication, and culture : current directions
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ISBN: 0803934505 Year: 1989 Publisher: Beverly Hills (Calif.) : Sage,

Communication for development in the Third World : theory and practice.
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ISBN: 8170362288 Year: 1991 Publisher: New Delhi Sage

Tradition as truth and communication : a cognitive description of traditional discourse
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ISBN: 0521374170 0521024668 0511521057 051183117X 9780521374170 9780521024662 Year: 2006 Volume: 68 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition 'as a type of interaction which results in the repetition which results in the repetition of certain communicative events', and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research. He has opened up an important new field for investigation within social anthropology.

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