Language, Culture, and Communication

Nancy Bonvillain is Professor Emerita of anthropology and linguistics at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She is author of over twenty books on language, culture, and gender. She received her PhD from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia University, The New School, SUNY Purchase and Stonybrook, and Sarah Lawrence College.

• PrefaceAbout the AuthorChapter 1. IntroductionVariations in Language UsageSpeech Communities of PracticePlan of the BookReferencesChapter 2. The Form of the MessagePhonology: The Sounds of LanguageMorphology: The Structure of WordsSyntax: The Structure of SentencesSemantics: The Analysis of MeaningNonverbal CommunicationSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferencesChapter 3. Language and Cultural MeaningFoundations of Linguistic AnthropologyLexical and Cultural CategoriesCultural PresuppositionExtended and Transferred MeaningDiscussion QuestionsSummaryReferencesChapter 4. Contextual Components: Outline of an Ethnography of CommunicationEthnography of CommunicationSettingsParticipantsTopics and GoalsSpeech ActsRoutinesNarrativesSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferencesChapter 5. Communicative InteractionsStructural Properties of ConversationConversational PostulatesDirectivesDirectives and Responses in ContextPolitenessSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferencesChapter 6. Signed Languages and Communities of PracticeFormation of SignsASL Vocabulary and GrammarLanguage Practices in Deaf CommunitiesIntersectional Variation in Signed Language CommunitiesSigned Languages Across the GlobeASL and Its Dominant Influence WorldwideGlobal Education PoliciesDigital Technologies and Social MediaSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferencesChapter 7. Digital Language and Social Media - Dillon MahoneyTelephone Communication and Technological ChangeComputer-Mediated CommunicationSocial MediaMemes#HashtagsTiktokAI And Intellectual PropertySummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferencesChapter 8. The Acquisition of Communicate CompetenceAcquisition of LanguageInstructional StrategiesStrategies in Other SocietiesAcquiring Communicative StylesLearning Status and RoleLearning DiscourseSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferenceChapter 9. Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation: Class and RaceSocial StratificationClassRaceSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferencesChapter 10. Language and GenderWhat Is Gender? How Does It Affect Speaking Styles?PronunciationGrammatical VariantsChoices of VocabularyGender-Related Conversational StylesJapaneseKuna (or Guna)Language and SexualityImages of Gender in Linguistic FormSummaryDiscussion Questions ReferencesChapter 11. Multilingual NationsIndiaCanadaThe United StatesCreole Languages in the United StatesSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferencesChapter 12. Multilingual CommunitiesLinguistic ChangeLanguage Use in Multilingual CommunitiesEndangered LanguagesBilingual Conversational StrategiesInterethnic MiscommunicationSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferencesChapter 13. Language and Institutional EncountersLanguage IdeologiesLanguage and StatusInstitutional ContextsPolitical DiscourseThe MediaSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReferenceGlossaryIndex

Changes made in this latest edition of Nancy Bonvillain's Language, Culture, and Communication have breathed new life into this classic text. Consolidation of the information on signed languages into a single cohesive chapter and the addition of Dillon Mahoney's contribution on language and digital communication and social media have improved upon an already spectacular student resource.