William O'Barr

• Duke University

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Roundtable on Approaches to the Analysis of Advertisements Robin M. Akert, Andy Berndt, Paul Kurnit, Robert Goldman, Doug Holt, Craig Markus, William O'Barr, Lisa Peñaloza, Tom Reichert, Faith Davis Ruffins WMO: This roundtable will be conducted in two parts. During the first part, the scholars will meet to discuss interpretive strategies in teachi...

Interview with Michael Kimmel William M. O'Barr Abstract: Michael Kimmel, founder of men's studies in the United States, talks about the origins of the academic study of masculinity. In this interview, he discusses the relationship between men's studies and feminism. Kimmel comments on the themes and issues about masculinity and men's lives that pe...

William M. O’Barr (Editor of A&SR) interviews Sut Jhally (Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst). Professor Jhally has become one of advertising’s most outspoken critics through his web-site (www.sutjhally.com), his role as founder and executive director of The Media Educational Foundation (www.mediaed.org), and h...

William M. O’Barr interviews Paul Cappelli about the creative process in advertising. Cappelli, now President of The Ad Store which he founded in the 1990s, previously worked on the Coca-Cola account at McCann-Erickson Worldwide. Cappelli talks personally and candidly about the origins of his creative ideas and the process of transforming them into...

William M. O’Barr (Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University) interviews Paul Kurnit (President and Founder of Kurnit Communications and Kidshop) about children and advertising. Topics include the special issues and problems associated with advertising directed to children and the effects of advertising on children. The published interv...

In his 1999 State of the Union address, President Clinton raised the possibility of investing social security funds in the equities market. In this article, two anthropologists who have studied the culture of the financial world assess the President's proposal. The analysis focuses on the vast cultural gap between the private-sector participants in...

Conley and O'Barr take an anthropological perspective on three cases of alleged corporate misconduct--car dealer discrimination, Archer Daniels Midland, and the tobacco industry trials.

* Analyzing Social Ideology in Advertisements * Instructions in Representing Others * Representations of Others, Part 1: Advertisements in the 1929 National Geographic Magazine * Representations of Others, Part 2: Contemporary Print Advertisements * Audience Responses: The Photographs of Tourists * An Exposition of Twentieth-Century Print Advertise...

Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. vii + 305 pp. including index. $44.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.Merlan, Francesca and Alan Rumsey. Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre...

In this fictional case study, Adam Lawson is a promising young associate at Kirkham McDowell Securities, a St. Louis underwriting and financial advisory firm. Recently, Adam helped to bring in an extremely lucrative deal, and soon he and a few other associates will be honored for their efforts at the firm's silver anniversary dinner. George Campbel...

In Rules versus Relationships, John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr examine the experiences of litigants seeking redress of everyday difficulties through the small claims courts of the American legal system. The authors find two major and contrasting ways in which litigants formulate and express their problems in terms of specific rule violations a...

In this paper we present results from a study of small claims litigants' expectations about the civil justice system. Interviews with plaintiffs at the time they file their cases reveal that many people come to court with profound misunderstandings about the authority of civil courts as well as the procedural and evidentiary burdens that the civil...

This article examines litigant narratives in small claims courts from two perspectives: the degree to which relaxed procedures and evidentiary constraints provide greater satisfaction to litigants than more formal courts, and the problems litigants encounter in providing legally adequate accounts without the assistance of attorneys. Data for this s...

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Language in the Legal Process J.Cotterill PART I: THE LINGUIST IN THE LEGAL PROCESS To Testify or Not to Testify? R.W.Shuy Whose Voice Is It? Invented and Concealed Dialogue in Written Records of Verbal Evidence Produced by the Police M.Coulthard Textual Barrier...

J. Maxwell Atkinson and Paul Drew. Order in Court: The Organization of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings. Atlantic Highlands, N. J.: Humanities Press, 1979. ix + 275 pp. Notes, references, and index. (Published in Oxford Socio‐Legal Studies Series, J. Maxwell Atkinson, Donald R. Harris, and R. M. Hartwell, general eds.) $30.00.

83 undergraduates and 43 law students heard either a male or a female witness in a taped reenactment of criminal trial testimony. The testimony was presented either in a "fragmented" style, with brief answers by the witness to many questions by the lawyer, or in a "narrative" style, with long answers to few questions. Consideration of adversary cou...

On the basis of a previous empirical analysis of speech patterns in court trials, speech styles were identified that covaried with speaker social status and power. The “powerless” style is characterized by the frequent use of such linguistic features as intensifiers, hedges, hesitation forms, and questioning intonations, whereas the “powerful” styl...

BlochMaurice (ed.), Political language and oratory in traditional society. London: Academic Press, 1975. Pp. x + 240. - Volume 6 Issue 1 - William M. O'Barr

Thesis--Northwestern University, 1970. Vita. Microfilm of typescript. s

Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become th...