A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

by Duranti, Alessandro

• ISBN13: 9781405144308
• ISBN10: 1405144300
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture. Provides a definitive overview of the field of linguistic anthropology, comprised of original contributions by leading scholars in the field Summarizes past and contemporary research across the field and is intended to spur students and scholars to pursue new paths in the coming decades Includes a comprehensive bibliography of over 2000 entries designed as a resource for anyone seeking a guide to the literature of linguistic anthropology

Author Biography

Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture at UCLA. His books include From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (1994), Linguistic Anthropology (1997), Key Terms in Language and Culture (2001), and Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (editor, 2001). In 1999 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a former president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology and former editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. In 2001 Duranti received the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Table of Contents

Synopsis of Contents	vii
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Notes on Contributors	xvi
Part I: Speech Communities, Contact, and Variation	1	(166)
Speech Community	3	(20)
Marcyliena Morgan
Registers of Language	23	(23)
Asif Agha
Language Contact and Contact Languages	46	(27)
Paul B. Garrett
Codeswitching	73	(22)
Kathryn A. Woolard
Diversity, Hierarchy, and Modernity in Pacific Island Communities	95	(26)
Niko Besnier
The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds through North American Indian Languages	121	(20)
Marianne Mithun
Variation in Sign Languages	141	(26)
Barbara LeMaster
Leila Monaghan
Part II: The Performing of Language	167	(180)
Conversation as a Cultural Activity	169	(28)
Elizabeth Keating
Maria Egbert
Gesture	197	(25)
John B. Haviland
Participation	222	(23)
Charles Goodwin
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Literacy Practices across Learning Contexts	245	(24)
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez
Narrative Lessons	269	(21)
Elinor Ochs
Poetry	290	(31)
Giorgio Banti
Francesco Giannattasio
Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to the Language of Song	321	(26)
Steven Feld
Aaron A. Fox
Thomas Porcello
David Samuels
Part III: Achieving Subjectivities and Intersubjectivities through Language	347	(102)
Language Socialization	349	(20)
Don Kulick
Bambi B. Schieffelin
Language and Identity	369	(26)
Mary Bucholtz
Kira Hall
Misunderstanding	395	(19)
Benjamin Bailey
Language and Madness	414	(17)
James M. Wilce
Language and Religion	431	(18)
Webb Keane
Part IV: The Power in Language	449	(69)
Agency in Language	451	(23)
Alessandro Duranti
Language and Social Inequality	474	(22)
Susan U. Philips
Language Ideologies	496	(22)
Paul V. Kroskrity
General Bibliography	518	(88)
Index	606