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INDEX
backchannel, 34, 36–37, 146, 149, 240n.17,
255n.17
Baker, Brook, 214, 269nn.18–21,
274n.52
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 103, 231n.25, 246n.42
Banks, Taunya Lovell, 27, 178, 187,
237n.101, 260n.28, 262n.57
Bauman, Richard, 48, 232n.35, 241n.4,
243n.14
Bell, Derrick, Jr., 228n.9
Bourdieu, Pierre, 22–23, 25, 51, 233n.50,
234n.64, 234nn.71–72
Brenneis, Donald, 19, 231n.29, 232n.35,
233n.49, 238n.115, 239n.122,
271n.40, 274n.56
Briggs, Charles, 29, 48, 232n.35,
238nn.116–118, 241n.4, 243n.12
Bruner, Jerome, 274n.51
Burns, Robert, 220, 248n.60, 274n.51
Calhoun, Craig, 229n.14, 234n.63
case law genre, 5, 8–10, 13, 44, 46, 52–53,
59–64, 109, 170
Cazden, Courtney, 24, 176, 233n.59,
239nn.2–4, 260n.13
Chandler, Nahum, 230n.22
abstract/concrete language, 1, 5–6, 24,
27, 133–134, 212–214, 220–221,
230n.15
Amsterdam, Anthony, 274n.51
analogy, 5, 58–59, 61–62, 70–74, 146, 154,
201, 213–215, 217–218, 220–221,
274n.56
anaphora, 149–150
animator, 104, 107, 112, 126, 157,
246n.42
anthropological linguistics. 
See
 linguistic
anthropology
Anyon, Jean, 233n.51, 234n.60
audience, 51, 148, 231n.29. 
See also