A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

Synopsis of Contents.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Notes on Contributors.
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 IslandCommunities. (Niko Besnier).
6. The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other WorldsThrough North American Indian Languages. (Marianne Mithun).
7. Variation In Sign Languages. (Barbara Lemaster and LeilaMonaghan).
Part II: The Performing of Language.
8. Conversation as a Cultural Activity. (Elizabeth Keating andMaria Egbert).
9. Gesture. (John B. Haviland).
10. Participation. (Charles Goodwin and Marjorie HarnessGoodwin).
11. Literacy Practices Across Learning Contexts. (PatriciaBaquedano-López). 12. Narrative Lessons.Elinor Ochs).
13. Poetry. (Giorgio Banti and Francesco Giannattasio).
14. Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to theLanguage of Song. (Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello, andDavid Samuels).
Part III: Achieving Subjectivities and IntersubjectivitiesThrough 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).
General Bibliography.
Index.