Ethnosemantic Probes: the intensive analysis of a topic domain and a description of its structural parameters;
Relationship Probes: the investigative exploration of on-going interpersonal relationships,
The Geometry of Understanding: the explication of the mathematical correspondences between ethnosemantic and geometric systems.
The Game of Raising Awareness: a practical manual for acquiring the Radicalist Register--- the register of understanding and adequacy. (Ethnosemantic Glossaries are written in the Radicalist Register.)
The Scientific Bible: a practical eschatological foundation for assimilating organized knowledge; an interdisciplinary unification of Cultural Knowledge, hence the organizaing rationale for Ethnosemantic Encyclopaedias.
In the years of intensive effort that preceded the presentation of this work, I have evolved a perspective on the self's participatory involvement in the cultural enviroment that has proven to be radically liberating. This experience, more than anything else, motivates me to this effort in presentation. My work has led me to the formulation of an understanding of cultural behavior that recognizes the modulations of individual seeking and suffering as actualized reifications of culturally standardized ritual possibilities. Thus, individual enlightment, adequacy, liberation, sophistication, are contingent possibilities that are cultural invariants. In other words) I recognize as inauthentic, exploitative, and victimizing to the individual those progressivist political ideologies that preach inherent limitations upon individuals with particular cultural histories.
Contents of Series
(Summer 1977)
COMMUNITY CATALOGUING PRACTICES
SERIES 1. Personal Variation
Volume One: Cumulative Record of the Daily Schedule
Volume Two: The Categories of Autob io graphy
SERIES 2. Community Character
Volume One: The Cross-cultural Study of Community Information
SERIES 3. Standardization Patterns
Volume . One: The Functional Analysis of the Verbal Community
SERIES 4. Methodology
Volume One: Principles of Ethnosemantics
SERIES 5. Interpretation
Volume One: Philosophical Foundations of Radicalism
SERIES 6. Teaching
Volume One: Principles of Performative Teaching
Available Chapters:
Volume 1.
Ch. 1: Ethnopractice: Microdescriptions of the Daily Round as Laboratory
Ch. 2: Textbook Social Psychology: Objectifying the Experimental Literature on Subjects
Ch. 3: Radicalist Social Psychology: The Secret Code
Volume 2.
Ch. 1: Objective Autobiography: Sudden Memory as the Integrating Mechanism on the Daily Round
Ch. 2: Historical Autobiography: On the reconstruction of Biographical Record
Volume 3.
Ch. 1: The Social Psychology of Language Teaching
Ch. 2: Language Teaching vs. Teaching Talk
Ch. 3: Transactional Engineering for the Language Teacher
Ch. 4: The Third Force in Language Teaching
Volume 4.
Ch. 1: Notes on Community Psycholinguistics
Ch. 2: The Structure and Function of Transactional Idioms
Ch. 3: The Empirical Investigation of Conversation
Ch.4: The Act of Composition: Preliminaries to the Study of Style
Ch. 5: Discourse Thinking
Volume 5.
Ch. 1: Intorductory Notes on Ethnosemantics
Ch. 2: Notes on ESNOSYS: Ethnosemantic Notation System
Ch. 3: Notes on Display Repertoire
Ch. 4 : Notes on ES-PROBE Technique
Ch. 5: Notes on Topic Focus
Ch. 6: The Color Coding System for the Investigation of Hexagrammatic Morphology
Volume 6.
Ch. 1: Notes on the Psychology of Knowledge
Ch. 2: Empirical Metaphysics
Ch. 3: Radicalism in.Psychology
Ch. 4: Notes on the Language and Register of Psychotherapy
Ch. 5: The Ritual Frame of Hypnosis
To Chapter 1: ESNOSYS: Ethnosemantic Notations System
To Table of Contents: Volume One
See two related works for more background:
Psycholinguistics and Ethnomethodology || Ethnomethodology and Information Behavior