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Record Nr.

UNISA996217496803316

Titolo

A companion to linguistic anthropology [[electronic resource] /] / edited Alessandro Duranti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell, c2004

ISBN

1-280-28457-9

9786610284573

0-470-99726-5

0-470-99652-8

1-4051-2890-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (648 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to anthropology

Altri autori (Persone)

DurantiAlessandro

Disciplina

306.44089

Soggetti

Anthropological linguistics

Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology; Contents; Synopsis of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Speech Communities, Contact, and Variation; 1 Speech Community; 2 Registers of Language; 3 Language Contact and Contact Languages; 4 Codeswitching; 5 Diversity, Hierarchy, and Modernity in Pacific Island Communities; 6 The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds through North American Indian Languages; 7 Variation in Sign Languages; Part II: The Performing of Language; 8 Conversation as a Cultural Activity; 9 Gesture; 10 Participation

11 Literacy Practices across Learning Contexts12 Narrative Lessons; 13 Poetry; 14 Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to the Language of Song; Part III: Achieving Subjectivities and Intersubjectivities through Language; 15 Language Socialization; 16 Language and Identity; 17 Misunderstanding; 18 Language and Madness; 19 Language and Religion; Part IV: The Power in Language; 20 Agency in Language; 21 Language and Social Inequality; 22 Language Ideologies; General Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth



explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture. Provides a definitive overview of the field of linguistic anthropology, comprised of original contributions by leading scholars in the fieldSummarizes past and contemporary research across the field and is intended to spur students and scholars to pursue new paths in the coming decadesIncludes