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Disorderly Discourse
Narrative, Conflict and Inequality
Inbunden, 1997
3452 kr
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Conflict plays a crucial role in social interactions, and representations of conflict are an important aspect of language. Stories and narratives involving everything from war to playground disputes generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict at all levels of social organization. Still, …
Disorderly Discourse
Narrative, Conflict and Inequality
Häftad, 1997
2260 kr
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Conflict plays a crucial role in social interactions, and representations of conflict are an important aspect of language. Stories and narratives involving everything from war to playground disputes generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict at all levels of social organization. Still, …
Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words
English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese
Av Wierzbicka
Häftad, 1997
1628 kr
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Wierzbicka demonstrates that every language has its "key concepts" (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. Examining empirical evidence from five languages, and using her own "natural semantic metalanguage" to provide an analytical …
Sounds Like Life
Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua
Inbunden, 1996
1280 kr
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Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words - words that bear resemblance to phenomena they attempt to describe - in an Ecuadorian dialect of Quechua, a major South American language. She explores how the speakers describe everyday experience and how sound-symbolism is integral to their …
Classificatory Particles in Kilivila
Av Gunter Senft
Inbunden, 1996
1503 kr
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Senft examines the system of classificatory particles - the divisions of the noun lexicon into distinct classes - in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobrian Islanders of Papua New Guinea.
Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers
Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition
Inbunden, 1996
1243 kr
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Kronenfeld aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, and to develop a theory of the semantics of natural language which can account adequately for native speakers' intuitions regarding word meanings and their word …
Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers
Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition
Häftad, 1996
1683 kr
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Kronenfeld aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, and to develop a theory of the semantics of natural language which can account adequately for native speakers' intuitions regarding word meanings and their word …
Telling Our Selves
Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
Av Chase Hensel
Inbunden, 1997
1985 kr
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In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents …
Telling Our Selves
Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
Av Chase Hensel
Häftad, 1997
1019 kr
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In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents …
A Language of Our Own
The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis
Av Peter Bakker
Inbunden, 1997
2948 kr
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The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an 'impossible language' since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and …
A Language of Our Own
The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis
Av Peter Bakker
Häftad, 1998
2123 kr
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The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and …
Relatively Speaking
Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya
Av Eve Danziger
Inbunden, 2001
2215 kr
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Eve Danziger's study re-addresses the issue of language and thought by viewing linguistic utterances as fully integrated into both the particular context of their use and the larger cultural context that makes it possible to use them at all. Using fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among the …
Seldom Ask, Never Tell
Labor and Discourse in Appalachia
Inbunden, 2000
950 kr
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Puckett takes a new look at the relationship between language, society, and economics, by examining how people talk about work in a rural Appalachian community. Through careful analysis of conversations in casual yet commercial contexts, she finds that the construction and maintenance of this …
The Korowai of Irian Jaya
Their Language in Its Cultural Context
Av Gerrit J. van Enk, Lourens de Vries
Inbunden, 1997
4002 kr
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Irian Jaya is the official name of the western half of New Guinea, a province of Indonesia since the 1960s. Its inhabitants are generally untouched by civilization, and most of their hundreds of native languages and cultures remain unstudied. Van Enk and de Vries gained access to one of the most …
Language Ideologies
Practice and Theory
Av Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
2753 kr
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"Language ideologies" refers to the representation, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. This collection of essays examines definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings, focusing on how such defining activity …
Language Ideologies
Practice and Theory
Av Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
1450 kr
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"Language ideologies" refers to the representation, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. This collection of essays examines definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings, focusing on how such defining activity …
Eloquence in Trouble
The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh
Inbunden, 1999
2260 kr
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This is a study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how those complaints are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. The book also focuses on the current troubles besetting …
Eloquence in Trouble
The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh
Häftad, 2003
1465 kr
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Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to …
Speaking Through the Silence
Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java
Av Laine Berman
Inbunden, 1998
3602 kr
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Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order. She does this by identifying the …
Creating Context in Andean Cultures
Av Howard-Malverde, Howard-Malverde
Häftad, 1997
1351 kr
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A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et al--cannot help but fundamentally alter the meaning of the living words and deeds of the culture in …
On Reconstructing Grammar
Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax
Av Spike Gildea
Inbunden, 1998
2273 kr
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Gildea has two goals in this book, first to argue that grammaticalization theory has advanced to the point that it can be used with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages; and second to give a detailed case study of this methodology in examining the typologically …
Power Sharing
Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Inbunden, 1999
2719 kr
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What allows certain individuals and groups to maintain control over the actions and lives of others? Linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating went to the island of Pohnpei, in Micronesia, and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. …
Ideology in the Language of Judges
How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control
Inbunden, 1998
3176 kr
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Philips looks at the languages of judges in the courtroom to show that, while judges see themselves as impartial agents of the constitutional right to due process, there is actually much diversity in the way that judges interract with defendants due to their interpretations of the law, their …
Ideology in the Language of Judges
How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control
Häftad, 1998
898 kr
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Philips looks at the languages of judges in the courtroom to show that, while judges see themselves as impartial agents of the constitutional right to due process, there is actually much diversity in the way that judges interract with defendants due to their interpretations of the law, their …
The Powers of Genre
Interpreting Haya Oral Literature
Av Peter Seitel
Inbunden, 1999
3575 kr
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The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single …
The Athabaskan Languages
Perspectives on a Native American Language Family
Av Theodore Fernald, Paul Platero
Inbunden, 2000
2306 kr
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The Athabaskan language family constitutes the largest group of Amerindian languages in North America, stretching from Alaska, through the Pacific Northwest, and to the Southwestern states. It includes languages like Navajo and Apache, as well as many lesser known. Over the years Athabaskan has …
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Inbunden, 1999
3555 kr
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Brown examines the nature of acculturation - the process of the incorporation of foreign words about new concepts into a language - in the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. Specifically, he examines how Native American languages adjusted to the introduction of foreign objects and …
Words and Stones
The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
Inbunden, 2004
1463 kr
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Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices …
American Indian Languages
The Historical Linguistics of Native America
Av Campbell
Häftad, 2000
1950 kr
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Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native …
Vernacular Literacy
A Re-Evaluation
Av Le Page Tabouret-Keller, Andrée Tabouret-Keller m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1628 kr
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Illiteracy problems are worldwide, and growing. Political and economic factors are often in conflict over which language to use for basic education and how it should be taught. There is increasing pressure on the resources available for using literacy in coping with the rapid population increase, …
