Research Tools for the Study of Greetings

Bibliography

Human greetings have been studied in a number of fields, including anthropology, human ethology, linguistics, and sociology. This bibliography includes a number of key readings in such fields.

Analytical Concepts

In the study of greetings as a social phenomenon, we can relie on a number of concepts developed within a number of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.

Transcript

A crucial tool for the study of greetings is the representation of the actions performed by the participants in the interaction, words included.