Methods for the Ethnography of Communication is a guide to conducting ethnographic research in classroom and community settings that introduces students to the field of ethnography of communication and takes them through the recursive and nonlinear cycle of ethnographic research.

Judith Kaplan-Weinger is Professor Emeritus in the Linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University, faculty in Communication at Loyola University of Chicago, and faculty in Education at Dominican University.

Erin Marks holds a Master of Arts in Linguistics from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. They have experience guiding university students with reading, writing, research, and testing strategies. Erin's research on autistic community discourse and on social media in politics has been presented at conferences internationally.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The Ethnography of Communication

Chapter 2: What We Do When We Do the Ethnography of Communication

Chapter 3: CULTURES: A Framework for Doing the Ethnography of Communication

Chapter 4: Compile your Knowledge

Chapter 5: Undertake Observation, Interviewing, and Artifact Analysis

Chapter 6: Locate Patterns

Chapter 7: Trace Patterns

Chapter 8: Undertake Ideologies

Chapter 9: Review with Participants

Chapter 10: Evaluate and Interpret

Chapter 11: Share Implications

Appendix: Fieldnotes from an Ethnography of Communication of Docentry

Index