A companion to linguistic anthropology / edited by Alessandro Duranti.

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Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
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Series:Blackwell companions to anthropology 1
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Speech communities, contact, and variation : 1 Speech community / Marcyliena Morgan
  • 2. Registers of language / Asif Agha
  • 3. Language contact and contact languages / Paul B. Garrett
  • 4. Codeswitching / Kathryn A. Woolard
  • 5. Diversity, hierarchy, and modernity in Pacific Island communities / Niko Besnier
  • 6. The value of linguistic diversity : viewing other worlds through North American Indian languages / Marianne Mithun
  • 7. Variation in sign languages / Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan
  • Part 2. The performing of language : 8. Conversation as a cultural activity / Elizabeth Keating and Maria Egbert
  • 9. Gesture / John B. Haviland
  • 10. Participation / Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin
  • 11. Literacy practices across learning contexts / Patricia Baquedano-Lopez
  • 12. Narrative lessons / Elinor Ochs
  • 13. Poetry / Giorgio Banti and Francesco Giannattasio
  • 14. Vocal anthropology : from the music of language to the language of song / Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello and David Samuels
  • Part 3. Achieving subjectivities and intersubjectivities through language : 15. Language socialization / Don Kulick and Bambi B. Schieffelin
  • 16. Language and identity / Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall
  • 17. Misunderstanding / Benjamin Bailey
  • 18. Language and madness / James M. Wilce
  • 19. Language and religion / Webb Keane
  • Part 4. The power in language : 20. Agency in language / Alessandro Duranti
  • 21. Language and social inequality / Susan U. Philips
  • 22. Language ideologies / Paul V. Kroskrity.