Speaking Culturally: Explorations in Social CommunicationSpeaking Culturally presents case studies of two cultures, focusing on how speaking is thematized and enacted in each. The Teamsterville culture is drawn from the author's studies of the spoken life of an urban, working class neighborhood in Chicago, while the Nacirema culture draws upon studies of communication among middle class Americans, primarily on the West Coast. Using fieldwork conducted over a period of twenty years, Philipsen shows how