A companion to linguistic anthropology /
Within the social sciences and the humanities, it is now widely accepted that the role of language in social life cannot be understood without a study of the interface between linguistic forms and the cultural practices that they help constitute. Linguistic anthropologists have been at the forefront...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to anthropology ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Speech Communities, Contact, and Variation: 1. Speech community / Marcyliena Morgan; 2. Registers of language / Asif Agha; 3. Language contact and contact languages / Paul B. Garrett; 4. Codeswitching / Kathryn A. Woolard; 5. Diversity, hierarchy, and modernity in Pacific Island communities / Niko Besnier; 6. The value of linguistic diversity : viewing other worlds through North American Indian languages / Marianne Mithun; 7. Variation in sign languages / Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan
- Part II. The Performing of Language: 8. Conversation as a cultural activity / Elizabeth Keating and Maria Egbert; 9. Gesture / John B. Haviland; 10. Participation / Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin; 11. Literacy practices across learning contexts / Patricia Baquedano-Lopez; 12. Narrative lessons / Elinor Ochs; 13. Poetry / Giorgio Banti and Francesco Giannattasio; 14. Vocal anthropology : from the music of language to the language of song / Steven Feld [and others]
- Part III. Achieving Subjectivities and Intersubjectivities through Language: 15. Language socialization / Don Kulick and Bambi B. Schieffelin; 16. Language and identity / Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall; 17. Misunderstanding / Benjamin Bailey; 18. Language and madness / James M. Wilce; 19. Language and religion / Webb Keane
- Part IV. The Power in Language: 20. Agency in language / Alessandro Duranti; 21. Language and social inequality / Susan U. Philips; 22. Language ideologies / Paul V. Kroskrity.