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Language, culture and society: key topics in linguistic anthropology

Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2016Description: xi, 310 pISBN:
  • 0521614740
  • 9781316604342
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44294 L2
Summary: Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives. • Authors of each chapter are the leading specialists in their field • Each chapter gives a fair and unbiased coverage of the issues • Raises innovative questions concerning linguistic anthropology (http://www.cambridge.org/tn/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-culture-and-society-key-topics-linguistic-anthropology?format=PB)
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Walking through walls
Christine Jourdan and Kevin Tuite

1. An issue about language
Charles Taylor

2. Linguistic relativities
John Leavitt

3. Benjamin Lee Whorf and the boasian foundations of contemporary ethnolinguistics
Regna Darnell

4. Cognitive anthropology
Penelope Brown

5. Methodological issues in cross-language colour naming
Paul Kay

6. Pidgins and creoles genesis: an anthropological offering
Christine Jourdan

7. Bilingualism
Monica Heller

8. The impact of language socialization on grammatical development
Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin

9. Intimate grammars: anthropological and psychoanalytic accounts of language, gender, and desire
Elizabeth Povinelli

10. Maximizing ethnopoetics: toward the fine-tuning (anthropological) experience
Paul Friedrich

11. Of phonemes, fossils and webs of meaning: the interpretation of language variation and change
Kevin Tuite.



Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.

• Authors of each chapter are the leading specialists in their field
• Each chapter gives a fair and unbiased coverage of the issues
• Raises innovative questions concerning linguistic anthropology


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