Linguistic Anthropologist Dennis Tedlock Developed a New Approach to the Ethnography

question 20

Multiple Choice

Linguistic anthropologist Dennis Tedlock developed a new approach to the ethnography of speaking called ethnopoetics. What viewpoint does ethnopoetics assume?

• A) all language is poetry
• B) all speech acts are performances
• C) speech is most powerful when it is beautiful
• D) ethnography should be poetry

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