Anthropological Linguistics

An Introduction

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

Av William Foley, Australia) Foley, William (University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Foley

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It 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 normally treated under the rubric of language and culture.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-06-14
Mått154 x 230 x 28 mm
Vikt753 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLanguage in Society
Antal sidor520
Upplaga1
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9780631151227

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Preface. Part I: Introduction.1. Introduction.Part II: The Evolution of Language.2. The Evolution of Language.Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind.3. Mind, Universals and the Sensible World.4. Structuralism.5. Cognitive Anthropology.6. Kinship.7. Color.Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind.8. On Relativist Understanding.9. Models and Metaphors.10. Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition.11. Space.12. Classifiers.Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking.13. Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples.14. Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood.15. Language and Gender.16. Language and Social Position.17. Language and Socialisation.18. Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art.Part VI: Culture and Language Change.19. Contact Induced Language Change.20. Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering.21. Literacy.References.Index.