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Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture
Häftad, 2002
366 kr
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African American language is central to the teaching of linguistics and language in the United States, and this book, in the series Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, is aimed specifically at upper level undergraduates and graduates. It covers the entire field - grammar, …
Voices of Modernity
Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality
Av Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs
Häftad, 2003
684 kr
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Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that …
Ku Waru
Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
Av Francesca Merlan, Alan Rumsey
Häftad, 2006
1089 kr
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The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. Although much has been written about them, previous accounts have concentrated far less on the conduct of exchange events than on the structure of exchange systems. This 1991 book deals centrally with the …
Language Contact in a Plantation Environment
A Sociolinguistic History of Fiji
Av Jeff Siegel
Häftad, 2009
639 kr
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Jeff Siegel's fascinating book provides a sociolinguistic history of language contact in Fiji where, from the 1860s until 1920, some 90,000 labourers from other Pacific islands and from India worked on the European-owned plantations. It focuses on the pidgins and other language varieties developed …
Learning How to Ask
A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research
Av Charles L. Briggs, Judith Irvine m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
720 kr
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Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received interviewing techniques rest on fundamental misapprehensions about the nature both of the interview as a communicative event, …
Ku Waru
Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
Av Francesca Merlan, Alan Rumsey
Inbunden, 1991
2029 kr
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The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. Although much has been written about them, previous accounts have concentrated far less on the conduct of exchange events than on the structure of exchange systems. This 1991 book deals centrally with the …
Investigating Obsolescence
Studies in Language Contraction and Death
Inbunden, 1989
1458 kr
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Languages die for political, economic and cultural reasons, and can disappear remarkably quickly. Between ten and fifty per cent of all languages currently spoken can be considered endangered, but it is only in the past ten years or so that due importance has been given to the study of contracting …
Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective
Av Susan U. Philips, Susan Steele m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
586 kr
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Most studies of gender differences in language use have been undertaken from exclusively either a sociocultural or a biological perspective. By contrast, this innovative volume places the analysis of language and gender in the context of a biocultural framework, examining both cultural and …
Language Socialization across Cultures
Av Bambi B. Schieffelin, Elinor Ochs
Häftad, 1987
720 kr
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Children's aquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-culturally the connections between the two, this volume provides a new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture. …
Culture and Language Development
Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village
Av Elinor Ochs, Judith Irvine m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
482 kr
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As children are learning to become competent members of their society, so also are they learning to become competent speakers of their language. In other words socialisation and language acquisition take place at the same time in a child's experience. In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex …
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
Av Richard Bauman, Joel Sherzer
Häftad, 1989
993 kr
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First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other volume has so successfully provided a broad, cross-cultural survey of the use, role and function of language and speech in social life. The essays deal …
Language Diversity and Thought
A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Av John A. Lucy
Häftad, 1992
720 kr
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Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting an historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry which arose in …
Rethinking Context
Language as an Interactive Phenomenon
Av Alessandro Duranti, Charles Goodwin
Häftad, 1992
1106 kr
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The last decade has seen a fundamental rethinking of the concept of context. Rather than functioning solely as a constraint on linguistic performance, context is now also analysed as a product of language use. In this new perspective, language and context are seen as interactively achieved …
Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse
Av Jane H. Hill, Judith T. Irvine
Häftad, 1993
586 kr
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In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility', 'authority', and 'knowledge': central, but problematic, concepts in contemporary anthropology. Their detailed case studies analyze diverse forms of oral discourse - …
Investigating Obsolescence
Studies in Language Contraction and Death
Häftad, 1992
770 kr
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Languages die for political, economic and cultural reasons, and can disappear remarkably quickly. Between ten and fifty per cent of all languages currently spoken can be considered endangered, but it is only in the past ten years or so that due importance has been given to the study of contracting …
Rethinking Linguistic Relativity
Av John J. Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson
Häftad, 1996
1022 kr
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Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially our classification of the experienced world. This book reexamines ideas about linguistic relativity in the light of new evidence and changes in theoretical climate. Parts I and II …
Literacy, Emotion and Authority
Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
Av Niko Besnier
Inbunden, 1995
1693 kr
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Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes …
Literacy, Emotion and Authority
Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
Av Niko Besnier, Judith Irvine m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
653 kr
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Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes …
Grammatical Categories and Cognition
A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Av John A. Lucy, Judith Irvine
Häftad, 1996
804 kr
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Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of …
Language and Social Relations
Av Asif Agha, Judith Irvine m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1312 kr
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Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This fascinating study explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, …
Language and Social Relations
Av Asif Agha
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This fascinating study explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, …
Literacy and Literacies
Texts, Power, and Identity
Av James Collins, Richard Blot
Inbunden, 2003
1844 kr
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Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official …
Literacy and Literacies
Texts, Power, and Identity
Av James Collins, Richard Blot
Häftad, 2003
720 kr
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Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official …
Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction
Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village
Häftad, 1997
972 kr
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Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction, first published in 1992, is a fascinating anthropological study of language and cultural change among the villagers of Gapun, in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Despite their strong attachment to their own language as a source of identity and as a tie …
Language, Culture, and Society
Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
Av Christine Jourdan, Kevin Tuite
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven …
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia
The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
Inbunden, 1998
1610 kr
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Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has diminished, and the rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of political and religious authority has been …
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia
The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
Häftad, 1998
737 kr
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Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has diminished, and the rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of political and religious authority has been …
Shifting Languages
Inbunden, 1998
1132 kr
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Indonesian is the national language of a vast, plural nation state, the world's fourth-largest country with a population of over 200 million. Although its use is growing rapidly, and is now spoken by nearly everyone over the age of six, it has almost relatively few native speakers. This remarkable …
Shifting Languages
Av J. Joseph Errington, Judith Irvine
Häftad, 1998
653 kr
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Indonesian is the national language of a vast, plural nation state, the world's fourth-largest country with a population of over 200 million. Although its use is growing rapidly, and is now spoken by nearly everyone over the age of six, it has almost relatively few native speakers. This remarkable …
Language and Emotion
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world. His book demonstrates …
