Anthropological Linguistics
Published on 14. June 1997
Book
Hardback
520 pages
978-0-631-15121-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is a textbook for courses in language and culture for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalized forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics normally treated under the rubric of language and culture. An important orientating strand in the book is the tension between innatist or universalist versus relativist approaches to anthropological linguistic phenomena: various topics like kinship, color, classifiers or the effects of literacy are discussed from these contrasting viewpoints to provide a richer understanding of their implications. The book is organized so that in a modular way individual instructors may use or omit sections to fit into their overall teaching design.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
845 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-15121-0 (9780631151210)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
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.