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Language, Culture, And Society - Key Topics In Linguistic Anthropology

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 How does language influence our perception of the world? How do children learn to use language appropriately? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? In what ways does language make us human? This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to discuss these important questions.
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Language And Emotion - An Introduction

by James M., Jr. (Northern Arizona University) Wilce

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 Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world.
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Literacy And Literacies - Texts, Power, And Identity

by James (State University Of New York, Albany) Collins e Richard (Lehman College, City University Of New York) Blot

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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 versus popular literacies.
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Language Contact In A Plantation Environment - A Sociolinguistic History Of Fiji

by Jeff Siegel

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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 to meet the needs of peoples from different linguistic backgrounds and different cultures.
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Culture And Language Development - Language Acquisition And Language Socialization In A Samoan Village

by Elinor Ochs

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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 interaction of these two processes.
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Responsibility And Evidence In Oral Discourse

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 Twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility', 'authority', and 'knowledge', all central, but problematic concepts in contemporary anthropology. Their detailed case studies analyse diverse forms of oral discourse Ã± from everyday conversation and conversational narrative to divination and ritual poetry Ã± in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
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Language And Social Relations - Structure, Use And Social Significance

by Asif (University Of Pennsylvania) Agha

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 Explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, and hierarchies. Drawing on authentic data from over thirty different languages and societies, it shows how we use language to formulate and transmit models of social life and conduct.
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Language, Culture, And Society - Key Topics In Linguistic Anthropology

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 How does language influence our perception of the world? How do children learn to use language appropriately? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? In what ways does language make us human? This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to discuss these important questions.
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Investigating Obsolescence - Studies In Language Contraction And Death

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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 and dying languages.
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Literacy And Literacies - Texts, Power, And Identity

by James (State University Of New York, Albany) Collins e Richard (Lehman College, City University Of New York) Blot

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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 versus popular literacies.
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Language, Discourse And Power In African American Culture

by Marcyliena (University Of California, Los Angeles) Morgan

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 A study of African American language in the United States looks at the grammar, speech, and verbal genres within the African American and American speech communities, as well as various historical strands that help to understand its development and the current political and educational debates about its dialectical status.
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Shifting Languages

by J. Joseph (Yale University, Connecticut) Errington

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 In this book, Joseph Errington analyses the role of language in development in Indonesia. His analysis of 'shifting languages' in two Javanese villages examines changing conversational practices in relation to questions of ethnicity, nationalism, and political culture. The theoretical implications extend beyond Indonesia and South East Asia, to the developing world in general.
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Language Shift And Cultural Reproduction - Socialization, Self And Syncretism In A Papua New Guinean Village

by Don (Professor, Stockholms Universitet) Kulick

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 This book, first published in 1992, is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among the people of Gapun, a small community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.
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Language And Social Relations - Structure, Use And Social Significance

by Asif (University Of Pennsylvania) Agha

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 Explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, and hierarchies. Drawing on authentic data from over thirty different languages and societies, it shows how we use language to formulate and transmit models of social life and conduct.
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Language, Gender, And Sex In Comparative Perspective

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 This innovative volume places the analysis of language and gender in the context of a biocultural framework, examining both cultural and biological sources of gender differences in language, as well as the interaction between them.
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Language, Identity, And Marginality In Indonesia - The Changing Nature Of Ritual Speech On The Island Of Sumba

by Joel C. (George Washington University, Washington Dc) Kuipers

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 The spread of the national language in Indonesia has threatened local languages. On Sumba a tradition of ritual poetic speech has waned, although new hybrid forms of poetic expression are emerging. Political coercion is a partial explanation, but so is the role of linguistic ideologies.
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Rethinking Context - Language As An Interactive Phenomenon

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 The essays in this collection critically re-examine the concept of context from a variety of different angles.
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Literacy, Emotion And Authority - Reading And Writing On A Polynesian Atoll

by Niko (Yale University, Connecticut) Besnier

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 In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context.
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Language And Emotion - An Introduction

by James M., Jr. (Northern Arizona University) Wilce

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 Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world.
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Language Diversity And Thought - A Reformulation Of The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

by John A. (University Of Chicago) Lucy

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 The Sapirâ€"Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that the grammar of the particular language we spwak affects the way we think about reality. This book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry which arose in America in response to this hypothesis, and proposes a new approach to future empirical research.
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Explorations In The Ethnography Of Speaking

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 This collection of classic case studies in ethnography provides a broad, cross-cultural survey of the use, role and function of language and speech in social life. Scholars and students whose backgrounds may be in literature, speech communication, performance studies or ethnomusicology will equally welcome this edition.
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Voices Of Modernity - Language Ideologies And The Politics Of Inequality

by Charles L. (University Of California, San Diego) Briggs e Richard (Indiana University) Bauman

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 This 2003 book argues that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how apparently objective differences between languages legitimated social inequalities.
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Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

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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.

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