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Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader 2nd edition


Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader 2nd edition

Paperback by Duranti, Alessandro (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader

£35.95

ISBN:
9781405126328
Publication Date:
9 Apr 2009
Edition/language:
2nd edition / English
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages:
544 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 17 - 19 May 2024
Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader

Description

Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on key subjects, including speech communities, the power and performance of language, and narratives Selections are both historically oriented and thematically coherent, and are accessibly grouped according to four major themes: speech community and communicative competence; the performance of language; language socialization and literacy practices; and the power of language An extensive introduction provides an original perspective on the development of the field and highlights its most compelling issues Each section includes a brief introductory statement, sets of guiding questions, and list of recommended readings on the main topics

Contents

Acknowledgments to the Second Edition viii Preface to the Second Edition ix Linguistic Anthropology: History, Ideas, and Issues 1 Alessandro Duranti Part I Ideal and Real Speech Communities 61 Introduction 63 1 The Speech Community 66 John J. Gumperz 2 The African-American Speech Community: Reality and Sociolinguists 74 Marcyliena Morgan 3 The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities 93 Debra Spitulnik 4 Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters 114 Benjamin Bailey 5 The Idealised Native Speaker, Reified Ethnicities, and Classroom Realities 137 Constant Leung, Roxy Harris, and Ben Rampton Part II The Performance of Language: Events, Genres, and Narratives 151 Introduction 153 6 Ways of Speaking 158 Dell Hymes 7 Formality and Informality in Communicative Events 172 Judith T. Irvine 8 Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings 188 Alessandro Duranti 9 Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power 214 Charles L. Briggs and Richard Bauman 10 Narrating the Political Self in a Campaign for US Congress 245 Alessandro Duranti 11 Hip Hop Nation Language 272 H. Samy Alim Part III Language Socialization and Literacy Practices 291 Introduction 293 12 Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications 296 Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin 13 Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom 329 Susan U. Philips 14 What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School 343 Shirley Brice Heath 15 Creating Social Identities through Doctrina Narratives 364 Patricia Baquedano-López Part IV the Power of Language 379 Introduction 381 16 Arizona Tewa Kiva Speech as a Manifestation of a Dominant Language Ideology 386 Paul V. Kroskrity 17 Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation 402 Judith T. Irvine and Susan Gal 18 The ''Father Knows Best'' Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives 435 Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor 19 Professional Vision 452 Charles Goodwin 20 Language, Race, and White Public Space 479 Jane H. Hill 21 No 493 Don Kulick Index 504

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