Key Terms in Language and Culture is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, and covering the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. Together these essays provide a lexicon of language from an anthropological perspective. Each essay includes a brief description of a key concept, the issues associated with the concept, and the major contributions to its study. There is a set of suggested readings at the end of each essay that provides readers with a good starting point for a further study.
Preface: Alessandro Duranti. 1. Acquisition: Susan Ervin-Tripp.
2. Act: Marina Sbisà.
3. Agency: Laura M. Ahearn.
4. Body: Mariella Pandolfi.
5. Brain: John Schumann.
6. Category: Ward H. Goodenough.
7. Codes: Celso Alvarez-Caccamo.
8. Color: Paul Kay.
9. Community: Marcyliena H. Morgan.
10. Competence: Jack Sidnell.
11. Conflict: Marco Jacquemet.
12. Contact: Christine Jourdan.
13. Control: Allen D. Grimshaw.
14. Crossing: Ben Rampton.
15. Deaf: Carol Padden.
16. Dreams: Laura R. Graham.
17. Endangered: Robert E. Moore.
18. Evolution: Kathleen R. Gibson.
19. Expert: Aaron Cicourel.
20. Functions: Michael Silverstein.
21. Gender: Mary Bucholtz.
22. Genre: Richard Bauman.
23. Gesture: John B. Haviland.
24. Grammar: John W. DuBois.
25. Healing: James Wilce.
26. Heteroglossia: Vyacheslav Ivanov.
27. Humor: William O. Beeman.
28. Iconicity: Bruce Mannheim.
29. Identity: Paul V. Kroskrity.
30. Ideology: Joseph Errington.
40. Ideophone: Dennis Tedlock.
41. Improvisation: R. Keith Sawyer.
42. Indexicality: William F. Hanks.
43. Individual: Barbara Johnstone.
44. Inference: John J. Gumperz.
45. Intentionality: Alessandro Duranti.
46. Interview: Charles Briggs.
47. Literacy: Niko Besnier.
48. Maxim: Stephen C. Levinson.
49. Media: Debra Spitulnik.
50. Metaphor: Bran Ben-Amos.
51. Meter: Giorgio Banti.
52. Music: Steven Feld & Aaron Fox.
53. Names: Betsy Rymes.
54. Narrative: Harriet E. Manelis Klein.
55. Orality: Alan Rumsey.
56. Oratory: Joel Kuipers.
57. Participation: Marjorie H. Goodwin.
58. Particles: Haruko M. Cook.
59. Performativity: Kira Hall.
60. Plagiarism: Ron Scollon.
61. Poetry: Dell Hymes.
62. Power: Susan Philips.
63. Prayer: Patricia Baquedano-Lopez.
64. Prophecy: John Leavitt.
65. Proverb: Kwesi Yankah.
66. Reconstruction: Victor Golla.
67. Reflexivity: John A. Lucy.
68. Register: Asif Agha.
69. Relativity: Alessandro Duranti.
70. Repetition: Penelope Brown.
71. Signing: Leila Monaghan.
72. Socialization: Elinor Ochs.
73. Space: Elizabeth Keating.
74. Style: Norma Mendoza-Denton.
75. Switching: Benjamin Bailey.
76. Syncretism: Jane H. Hill.
77. Theater: Ingjerd Hoëm.
78. Translation: Regna Darnell.
79. Truth: Susan D. Blum.
80. Turn: Sally Jacoby.
81. Variation: John Baugh.
82. Vision: Charles Goodwin.
83. Voice: Webb Keane.
84. Writing: Antonio Perri.
