Preface.Part I: Introduction:1. Introduction.Part II: The Evolution of Language:2. The Evolution of Language.Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind:3. Mind, Universals and the Sensible World.4. Structuralism.5. Cognitive Anthropology.6. Kinship.7. Color.Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind:8. On Relativist Understanding.9. Models and Metaphors.10. Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition.11. Space.12. Classifiers.Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking:13. Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples.14. Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood.15. Language and Gender.16. Language and Social Position.17. Language and Socialisation.18. Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art.Part VI: Culture and Language Change:19. Contact Induced Language Change.20. Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering.21. Literacy.References.Index.
