Ethnography of SpeechOnline version Ethnography of Speech by Diana Gonzalez 1 has always been honored in anthropological principle, if sometimes slighted in practice Pistas 1 was pioneered in the field of socio-cultural anthropology but has also become a popular method in various other fields of social sciences 2 The Ethnography of communication 3 • EOC can be used as a means by which to study the interactions among members of a specific culture 4 must be understood for analysis and interpretation of the appropriateness of speech acts situated within specific communities