Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture at UCLA. His books include From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (1994), Linguistic Anthropology (1997), Key Terms in Language and Culture (2001), and Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (editor, 2001). In 1999 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a former president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology and former editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. In 2001 Duranti received the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

“The essays … display a vigorous subdisciplinary repertoire with much to offer the contemporary research university, and they show that a field is not necessarily humdrum for being useful.” (Journal of Anthropological Research, November 2008) "Duranti…has done more than anyone else in the past generation to establish linguistic anthropology as a scholarly field. ... Designed to be user-friendly …A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology…is an impressive achievement, and will be of great value to its field and neighboring fields, for a long time to come. This Companion may be a culmination of Duranti’s considerable work to establish linguistic anthropology." (Journal of Sociolinguistics) "This hefty, immaculate volume inaugurates the innovative series of Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, and does so with academic panache … Intelligible for readers with no previous knowledge of the field ... A resource of genuine utility in academic libraries with any interest in linguistics or anthropology.” (Reference Reviews)"This volume brings together 31 scholars in the field of linguistic anthropology and is aimed at offering an overview of the discipline's key concepts and approaches." (Pragmatics) "Succeeds in doing exactly what it sets out to in a clear, concise and well-ordered fashion... a well thought out and comprehensive anthology that gives the reader a well-rounded introduction to linguistic anthropology... a must-have for any anthropologist's bookshelf." (Social Anthropology)

• Synopsis of Contents viiPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xvNotes on Contributors xviPart I: Speech Communities, Contact, and Variation 11 Speech Community 3Marcyliena Morgan2 Registers of Language 23Asif Agha3 Language Contact and Contact Languages 46Paul B. Garrett4 Codeswitching 73Kathryn A. Woolard5 Diversity, Hierarchy, and Modernity in Pacific Island Communities 95Niko Besnier6 The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds through North American Indian Languages 121Marianne Mithun7 Variation in Sign Languages 141Barbara LeMaster and Leila MonaghanPart II: The Performing of Language 1678 Conversation as a Cultural Activity 169Elizabeth Keating and Maria Egbert9 Gesture 197John B. Haviland10 Participation 222Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin11 Literacy Practices across Learning Contexts 245Patricia Baquedano-López12 Narrative Lessons 269Elinor Ochs13 Poetry 290Giorgio Banti and Francesco Giannattasio14 Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to the Language of Song 321Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello, and David SamuelsPart III: Achieving Subjectivities and Intersubjectivities through Language 34715 Language Socialization 349Don Kulick and Bambi B. Schieffelin16 Language and Identity 369Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall17 Misunderstanding 395Benjamin Bailey18 Language and Madness 414James M. Wilce19 Language and Religion 431Webb KeanePart IV: The Power in Language 44920 Agency in Language 451Alessandro Duranti21 Language and Social Inequality 474Susan U. Philips22 Language Ideologies 496Paul V. KroskrityGeneral Bibliography 518Index 606