Key Terms in Language and Culture

Name: Key Terms in Language and Culture
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ISBN: 9780631226666

ISBN-10: 0631226664

ISBN-13: 9780631226666

Edition: 2001

Authors: Alessandro Duranti

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Key Terms in Language and Culture is an exciting new collection of 75 original short essays, written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, covering all the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. Together these essays provide a contemporary lexicon of language from an anthropological perspective. Each 1,000-word essay includes a brief description of a key concept, the issues associated with the concept, and the major contributions to its study. There is a set of suggested readings at the end of each essay that provides readers with an excellent starting point for further study. Key Terms in Language and Culture is a comprehensive…

Book details

List price: $72.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.05" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface




Acquisition




Act




Agency




Body




Brain




Category




Codes




Color




Community




Competence




Conflict




Contact




Control




Crossing




Deaf




Dreams




Endangered




Evolution




Expert




Functions




Gender




Genre




Gesture




Grammar




Healing




Heteroglossia




Humor




Iconicity




Identity




Ideology




Ideophone




Improvisation




Indexicality




Individual




Inference




Intentionality




Interview




Literacy




Maxim




Media




Metaphor




Meter




Music




Names




Narrative




Orality




Oratory




Participation




Particles




Performativity




Plagiarism




Poetry




Power




Prayer




Prophecy




Proverb




Reconstruction




Reflexivity




Register




Relativity




Repetition




Signing




Socialization




Space




Style




Switching




Syncretism




Theater




Translation




Truth




Turn




Variation




Vision




Voice




Writing