Anthropological Linguistics An Introduction

Name: Anthropological Linguistics An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780631151227

ISBN-10: 0631151222

ISBN-13: 9780631151227

Edition: 1997

Authors: William Foley

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This textbook starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalised forms of situated practice, and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics in anthropological linguistics.

Book details

List price: $89.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 514
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Introduction



The Evolution of Language



The Evolution of Language



Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind



Mind, Universals and the Sensible World



Structuralism



Cognitive Anthropology



Kinship



Color



Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind



On Relativist Understanding



Models and Metaphors



Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition



Space



Classifiers



The Ethnography of Speaking



Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples



Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood



Language and Gender



Language and Social Position



Language and Socialisation



Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art



Culture and Language Change



Contact Induced Language Change



Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering



Literacy


References


Index