Linguistic Anthropology

Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. His publications include Key Terms in Language and Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001) and A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the recipient of various awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, and the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

"Alessandro Duranti has succeeded in compiling an excellent reader that many instructors and students will find useful as an introduction to key works in linguistic anthropology. Leaders in the theory and practice of contemporary linguistic anthropology are well represented, and all of the articles are excellent; indeed, most are recognized as contemporary "classics" in the field. This reader is an excellent addition to the growing library of readers in linguistic anthropology and a valuable new resource for both students and teachers." (Current Anthropology [from 1st edition]) "Many of the articles included...are examples of highly innovative scholarly work on issues of language related to culture. It provides an excellent (and long overdue) discussion of terminology, American lingustic anthropology's development within Cultural Anthropology, its subsequent drift away from anthropology towards an independent discipline increasingly focused on theoretical anthropologists in the late 1960s, and its reestablishment as a subfield of anthropology in the 1980s-90s. As a textbook this reader makes a very useful teaching aid, as a source book it provides valuable insights into the discipline of linguistic anthropology." (Linguist List)

• Acknowledgments to the Second Edition viiiPreface to the Second Edition ixLinguistic Anthropology: History, Ideas, and Issues 1Alessandro DurantiPart I Ideal and Real Speech Communities 61Introduction 631 The Speech Community 66John J. Gumperz2 The African-American Speech Community: Reality and Sociolinguists 74Marcyliena Morgan3 The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities 93Debra Spitulnik4 Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters 114Benjamin Bailey5 The Idealised Native Speaker, Reified Ethnicities, and Classroom Realities 137Constant Leung, Roxy Harris, and Ben RamptonPart II The Performance of Language: Events, Genres, and Narratives 151Introduction 1536 Ways of Speaking 158Dell Hymes7 Formality and Informality in Communicative Events 172Judith T. Irvine8 Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings 188Alessandro Duranti9 Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power 214Charles L. Briggs and Richard Bauman10 Narrating the Political Self in a Campaign for US Congress 245Alessandro Duranti11 Hip Hop Nation Language 272H. Samy AlimPart III Language Socialization and Literacy Practices 291Introduction 29312 Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications 296Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin13 Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom 329Susan U. Philips14 What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School 343Shirley Brice Heath15 Creating Social Identities through Doctrina Narratives 364Patricia Baquedano-LópezPart IV the Power of Language 379Introduction 38116 Arizona Tewa Kiva Speech as a Manifestation of a Dominant Language Ideology 386Paul V. Kroskrity17 Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation 402Judith T. Irvine and Susan Gal18 The ‘‘Father Knows Best’’ Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives 435Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor19 Professional Vision 452Charles Goodwin20 Language, Race, and White Public Space 479Jane H. Hill21 No 493Don KulickIndex 504