Language, Culture, and Society

James Stanlaw is professor of anthropology at Illinois State University. His areas of interest include linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology, language and culture contact, and Japan and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact.Nobuko Adachi is associate professor of anthropology at Illinois State University. Her interests include transnationalism, ethnohistory, and ethnic studies. She is the author of Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune: Child of Nature.Zdenek Salzmann is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he is the author, with his wife Joy, of Native Americans of the Southwest.

• Preface1. Introducing Linguistic Anthropology2. Methods of Linguistic Anthropology3. The "Nuts and Bolts" of Linguistic Anthropology I: Language Is Sound4. The "Nuts and Bolts" of Linguistic Anthropology II: Structure of Words and Sentences5. Communicating Nonverbally6. The Development and Evolution of Language: Language Birth, Language Growth, and Language Death7. Acquiring and Using Language(s): Life with First Languages, Second Languages, and More8. Language Through Time9. Languages in Variation and Languages in Contact10. The Ethnography of Communication11. Culture as Cognition, Culture as Categorization: Meaning and Language in the Conceptual World12. Language, Culture, and Thought13. Language, Identity, and Ideology I: Variations in Gender14. Language, Identity, and Ideology II: Variations in Class, "Race," Ethnicity, and Nationality15. The Linguistic Anthropology of a Globalized and Digitalized World

"Language, Culture, and Society provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamental subfields of linguistic anthropology. The rich variety of examples presented from languages spoken all over the globe allows students to enter the world of working linguistic anthropologists."―Marilyn S. Manley, Rowan University"A major introduction and overview to the (reborn) field of linguistic anthropology. The book is systematic and very accessible. It covers most of what is relevant in the field, for which it certainly is to be highly recommended."―Applied Linguistics"Language, Culture, and Society is a welcoming text regardless of the reader's background in linguistic anthropology. Material that is significant in scope and depth is masterfully rendered in digestible yet substantive elements. There is an art to maintaining conceptual rigor while deftly delivering profound ideas in readily grasped writing-an art that Salzmann, Stanlaw, and Adachi possess in great amounts."―William L. Alexander, University of North Carolina