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| Preface | |
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| Introducing Linguistic Anthropology | |
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| Why Should We Study Language? Language in Daily Life | |
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| Modern Myths Concerning Languages | |
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| Brief History of Anthropology | |
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| Anthropology, Linguistics, and Linguistic Anthropology | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Methods of Linguistic Anthropology | |
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| Contrasting Linguistics with Linguistic Anthropology | |
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| The Fieldwork Component | |
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| A Checklist for Research in the Field | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Language Is Sound: Phonology | |
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| The Anatomy and Physiology of Speech | |
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| Articulation of Speech Sounds | |
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| From Phones to Phonemes | |
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| Phonemes of English | |
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| Prosodic Features | |
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| Etics and Ernics | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Structure of Words and Sentences | |
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| Morphemes and Allomorphs | |
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| Morphological Processes | |
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| Morphophonemics | |
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| The Sentence as a Unit of Analysis | |
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| Inflections and Word Order | |
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| Chomsky and Transformational-Generative Grammar | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Nonverbal Communication | |
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| Paralinguistics | |
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| Kinesics | |
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| Proxemios | |
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| Whistle "Languages," | |
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| Sign Languages | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| The Development and Evolution of Language | |
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| Communication and Its Channels | |
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| Communication Among Social Insects | |
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| Communication Among Nonhuman Primates and Other Vertebrates | |
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| When Does a Communication System Become Language? | |
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| Milestones in Human Evolution | |
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| Design Features of Language | |
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| Language as an Evolutionary Product | |
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| Monogenesis Versus Polygenesis | |
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| Estimating the Age of Language: Linguistic Considerations | |
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| Estimating the Age of Language: The View from Prehistory | |
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| Estimating the Age of Language: Evidence from Anatomy | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Acquiring Language(s): Life with First Languages, Second Languages, and More | |
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| The First Steps of Language Acquisition in Childhood | |
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| Theories of Language Acquisition | |
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| Language and the Brain | |
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| Bilingual and Multilingual Brains | |
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| The Social Aspects of Multilingualism | |
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| Code-Switchingj Code-Mixing, and Diglossia | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Language Through Time | |
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| How Languages Are Classified | |
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| Internal and External Changes | |
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| How and Why Sound Changes Occur | |
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| Reconstructing Frotolanguages | |
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| Reconstructing the Ancestral Homeland | |
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| Reconstructing a Protoculture | |
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| Trying to Date the Past: Glottochronology | |
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| Time Perspective in Culture | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Languages in Variation and Languages in Contact | |
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| Idiolects | |
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| Dialects | |
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| Styles | |
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| Language Contact | |
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| Pidgins | |
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| From Pidgins to Creoles | |
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| Language Contact in the Contemporary World | |
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| The World of Languages | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Ethnography of Communication | |
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| Speech Community and Related Concepts | |
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| Units of Speech Behavior | |
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| Components of Communication | |
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| Subanun Drinking Talk | |
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| Attitudes Toward the Use of Speech | |
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| Recent Trends in the Ethnography of Speaking | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Culture as Cognition, Culture as Categorization: Meaning and Language in the Conceptual World | |
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| Concepts, Words, and Categories | |
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| The Lexical Nature of Concepts | |
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| The Rise and (Relative) Fall of Ethnoscience | |
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| Sound Symbolism and Synesthesia | |
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| Studies of Discourse | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Language, Culture, and Thought | |
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| The Stimulus of Sapir's Writings | |
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| The Whorf Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism | |
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| Whorf s Hypothesis Reconsidered | |
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| Color Nomenclature and Other Challenges to Linguistic Relativity | |
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| Theoretical Alternatives to Linguistic Relativity | |
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| Future Tests of Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Language and Ideology: Variations in Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Nationality | |
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| Language, Social Class, and Identity | |
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| Language and Gender | |
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| Language, "Race," and Ethnicity | |
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| Language and Nationality | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Linguistic Anthropology in a Globalized World | |
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| Language Planning | |
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| Literacy, Writing, and Education | |
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| The Life and Death of Languages | |
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| Intercultural Communication and Translation | |
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| Language and the Law | |
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| English as an International Language | |
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| Always On: New Literacies and Language in an Online Global World | |
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| Ethical Questions and Standards of Conduct | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Resource Manual and Study Guide | |
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| Answers to the Objective Study Questions and Problems | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Languages Mentioned in the Text and Their Locations (Map) | |
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| Index | |