Ethnography of speaking

Ethnography of speaking is the study of ways of speaking as they competences that is knowledge of appropriate ways of speaking within their culrure. The unit of analysis is  the communicative event a single verbal interaction within a specific communicative siktuations as recognized by the study of language and bring in socaial context. It must deal with the real texts that make up human communication and the social situations in which they are used. That is the focus of attention shifts from the sentence to the act of communication, the sppech event. Ethnography of speaking is an anthropologically based sociolinguistic model the central concepts of which were developed, building on a mdel of communication. Any communicative use of language or speech event is constituded by seven distinct factors each associated with a different function. The first two are the speaker- writer and the hearer-reader from the resources of a speech code. The massage from expresses of a topic sme physical means some chanel visual in the case of writing or sign language or other. It is possible to study these one at a time, but each must be included to understand the working of the system.