Charles L. Briggs

TL;DR: A long tradition of thinking about language and society argues that verbal art provides a central dynamic force in shaping linguistic structure and linguistic study as discussed by the authors. But poetics has often been marginalized by anthropologists and linguists who believe that aesthetic uses of language are merely parasitic upon such "core" areas of linguistics as phonology, syntax, and semantics, or upon such anthropological fields as economy and social organization.

TL;DR: Briggs as discussed by the authors argues that the received interviewing techniques rest on fundamental misapprehensions about the nature both of the interview as a communicative event, and of the nature of the data that it produces.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between discourse, textual and social order, and power by means of an examination of the concept of genre, and pointed out the ways that investigating generic intertextuality can illuminate questions of ideology, political economy and power.

TL;DR: In this article, the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England is discussed. And the critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity.

TL;DR: The authors proposes a model for analyzing the power of ideologies of communication in producing subjectivities, organizing them hierarchically, and recruiting people to occupy them, and compares this productive capacity, which is termed communicability, with schemes of racialization and medicalization.