References on Greetings
(updated September 26, 1998)

(Note: The publications that focus on greetings or provide an extensive discussion of greeting behavior are marked by a '*'. The rest may have some parts dedicated to greetings or may treat material that is relevant to the identification and classification of greetings. Please send suggestions on names of authors and publications I might have missed to aduranti@anthro.ucla.edu)

Bloch, M. (1975). Introduction. In Political Language and Oratory in Traditional Society, ed. M. Bloch. 1-28. London, Academic Press.

Crago, M. B. (1988). Cultural Context in Communicative Interaction of Inuit Children. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. McGill University, Montreal.

Duranti, A. (1981). The Samoan Fono: A Sociolinguistic Study. Pacific Linguistics Monographs, Series B. Vol. 80. Canberra, Australian National University, Department of Linguistics.

*Duranti, A. (1992). Language and Bodies in Social Space: Samoan Ceremonial Greetings. American Anthropologist, 94, 657-91.

*Duranti, A. (1997). Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7: 63-97.

*Duranti, A. (1997). Polyphonic Discourse: Overlapping in Samoan Ceremonial Greetings. Text 17:349-81.

Duranti, A. and E. Ochs (1986). Literacy Instruction in a Samoan Village. In Acquisition of Literacy: Ethnographic Perspectives, ed. B. B. Schieffelin and P. Gilmore. 213-32. Norwood, N.J., Ablex.

*Ferguson, C. A. (1976). The Structure and Use of Politeness Formulas. Language in Society 5: 137-51.

*Firth, R. (1970). Postures and Gestures of Respect. In Echanges et Communications: Melanges Offerts a Claude Levi-Strauss a l' Occasion de son 60eme Anniversaire, ed. J. P. a. P. Maranda. 188-209. The Hague, Mouton.

*Firth, R. (1972). Verbal and Bodily Rituals of Greeting and Parting. In The Interpretation of Ritual: Essays in Honour of A.I. Richards, ed. J. S. La Fontaine. 1-38. Londong, Tavistock.

Frake, C. O. (1975). How to Enter a Yakan House. In Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use, ed. M. Sanchez and B. G. Blount. 25-40. New York, Academic Press.

Goffman, E. (1963). Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gathering. New York, Free Press.

Goffman, E. (1967). Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior. Garden City, New York, Doubleday.

Goffman, E. (1972) Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Goffman, E. (1974). Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. New York, Harper and Row.

Goffman, E. (1981). Forms of Talk. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.

*Goody, E. (1972). 'Greeting', 'begging', and the Presentation of Respect. In The Interpretation of Ritual, ed. J. S. La Fontaine. 39-71. London, Tavistock.

Hanks, W. F. (1990). Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space Among the Maya. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

*Irvine, J. (1974). Strategies of Status Manipulation in Wolof Greeting. In Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, ed. R. Bauman and J. Sherzer. 167-191. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Irvine, J. T. (1979). Formality and Informality in Communicative Events. American Anthropologist 81: 773-790.

Keesing, F. and M. Keesing (1956). Elite Communication in Samoa. Palo Alto, Stanford University Press.

Kendon, A. (1967). Some Functions of Gaze-Direction in Social Interaction. Acta Psychologica 26: 22-63.

Kendon, A. (1977). Studies in the Behavior of Social Interaction. Lisse, The Peter De Ridder Press.

*Kendon, A. and A. Ferber (1973). A Description of Some Human Greetings. In Comparative Ecology and Behaviour of Primates, ed. R. P. Michael and J. H. Crook. 591-668. London & New York, Academic Press. (Reprinted in Kendon 1977)

Kleinke, C. L. (1986). Gaze and Eye Contact: A Research Review. Psychological Bulletin 100(1): 78-100.

Milner, G. B. (1961). The Samoan Vocabulary of Respect. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 91: 296-317.

*Milton, K. (1982). Meaning and Context: The Interpretation of Greetings in Kasigau. In Semantic Anthropology, ed. D. Parkin. London, Academic Press.

Moerman, M. (1990). Studying Gestures in Social Context. In Culture Embodied, ed. M. Moerman and M. Nomura. 5-52. Osaka, National Museum of Ethnology.

Sacks, H., E. A. Schegloff, et al. (1974). A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation. Language 50: 696-735.

*Salmond, A. (1974). Rituals of Encounter among the Maori: Sociolinguistic Study of a Scence. In Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, ed. R. Bauman and J. Sherzer. 192-212. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Schegloff, E. (1987). The Routine as Achievement. Human Studies 9: 111-151.

*Schegloff, E. A. (1968). Sequencing in Conversational Openings. American Anthropologist 70: 1075-1095.

*Schegloff, E. A. (1979). Identification and Recognition in Telephone Openings. In Everyday Language, ed. G. Psathas. 23-78. New York, Erlbaum.

Schegloff, E. A. and H. Sacks (1973). Opening Up Closings. Semiotica 8: 289-327.

*Schiffrin, D. (1977). Opening Encounters. American Sociological Review 42: 679-691.

Sherzer, J. (1983). Kuna Ways of Speaking: An Ethnographic Perspective. Austin, University of Texas Press.

*Youssouf, I. A., A. D. Grimshaw, et al. (1976). Greetings in the Desert. American Ethnologist 3(4): 797-824.