New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

ALESSANDRO DURANTI is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). One of the most respected linguistic anthropologists in the world, Duranti has authored and edited many of the defining volumes in the field. He is the co-founder of the journal Pragmatics, former editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and past President of the Society of Linguistic Anthropology. RACHEL GEORGE is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Whitman College. Her research interests include language socialization after regime change, ambivalent discourse, language and bureaucracy, and the semiotics of writing on social media. Her work on changing linguistic, political, and ethnic identities in Belgrade, Serbia has been published in Language in Society and Political and Legal Anthropology Review. ROBIN CONLEY RINER is Professor of Anthropology at Marshall University. Her work in linguistic and legal anthropology investigates how people use language to navigate morally complex experiences surrounding institutional death and killing. She is the author of Confronting the Death Penalty and co-editor of Language and Social Justice in Practice.

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1Robin Conley Riner and Rachel GeorgePart I: Speech Communities and Their Contested Boundaries 131 On the Social Lives of Indigenous North American Languages 15Paul V. Kroskrity and Barbra A. Meek2 Creolization: Its Context, Power, and Meaning 33Christine Jourdan3 Language Endangerment and Renewal 49Sean O’Neill4 Narrating Transborder Communities 66Elizabeth Falconi5 Mixing, Switching, and Languaging in Interaction 86Jan David Hauck and Teruko Vida Mitsuhara6 Postcolonial Semiotics 107Angela Reyes7 Deaf Communities: Constellations, Entanglements, and Defying Classifications 122Erin Moriarty and Lynn Hou8 Global Hip Hop: Style, Language, and Globalization 139H. Samy AlimPart II: Literacies and Textualities Across Time and Space 1579 Ancient Literacy Practices and Script Communities 159Alice Mandell10 Rethinking Translation and Transduction 178Susan Gal11 Social Dramas: A Semiotic Approach 194Kristina Wirtz12 Digital Literacies 214Rachel Flamenbaum and Rachel George13 Digital Religious Discourse 235Ayala Fader14 Linguistic Anthropology of the Visual 253Jennifer F. Reynolds15 Technobodily Literacy in Video Interaction 273Samira Ibnelkaïd16 Ethics and Language 299Steven P. BlackPart III: Speaking, Sensing, and Sounding 31517 Contested Intentions 317Alessandro Duranti18 Entanglements of Language and Experience in Everyday Life 334Elinor Ochs19 Affect, Emotion, and Linguistic Shift 354Kathryn E. Graber20 Using the Senses in Animal Communication 369Erica A. Cartmill21 Human Touch 391Asta Cekaite and Marjorie Harness Goodwin22 Socialization of Attention 410Lourdes de León23 Sound, Voice, and the Felt Body 428Patrick Eisenlohr24 Multimodality 443Keith M. Murphy25 Language and Food 461Jillian R. Cavanaugh and Kathleen C. RileyPart IV: Language, Power, and Justice 47726 Language Policy and Ethnic Conflict 479Christina P. Davis27 Secrecy 494Erin Debenport28 Legal Language and Its Ideologies 509Robin Conley Riner29 Language, Gender, Race, and Sexuality: Intersectional Perspectives 525Lal Zimman30 Engaged Linguistic Anthropology 542Netta Avineri and Jocelyn Ahlers31 Language and Racism 560Krystal A. Smalls and Jenny L. Davis32 Communicative Justice and Health 577Charles L. Briggs33 The Force of Indexicality 596Alessandro DurantiIndex 614