Key Terms in Language and Culture

by Duranti, Alessandro

• ISBN13: 9780631226666
• ISBN10: 0631226664
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Complementing David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on S"

Author Biography

Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA and author of a number of books, including Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon (edited with Charles Goodwin, 1992), From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (1994), and Linguistic Anthropology (1997). In 1999 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a former president of the Society of Linguistic Anthropology and current editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Preface	xv
Alessandro Duranti
Acquisition	1	(3)
Susan Ervin-Tripp
Act	4	(3)
Marina Sbisa
Agency	7	(4)
Laura M. Ahearn
Body	11	(4)
Mariella Pandolfi
Brain	15	(4)
John H. Schumann
Category	19	(4)
Ward H. Goodenough
Codes	23	(4)
Celso Alvarez-Caccamo
Color	27	(4)
Paul Kay
Community	31	(3)
Marcyliena M. Morgan
Competence	34	(3)
Jack Sidnell
Conflict	37	(4)
Marco Jacquemet
Contact	41	(4)
Christine Jourdan
Control	45	(4)
Allen D. Grimshaw
Crossing	49	(3)
Ben Rampton
Deaf	52	(4)
Carol Padden
Dreams	56	(4)
Laura R. Graham
Endangered	60	(4)
Robert E. Moore
Evolution	64	(3)
Kathleen R. Gibson
Expert	67	(4)
Aaron V. Cicourel
Functions	71	(4)
Michael Silverstein
Gender	75	(4)
Mary Bucholtz
Genre	79	(4)
Richard Bauman
Gesture	83	(4)
John B. Haviland
Grammar	87	(4)
John W. Du Bois
Healing	91	(4)
James Wilce
Heteroglossia	95	(3)
Vyacheslav Lvanov
Humor	98	(4)
William O. Beeman
Iconicity	102	(4)
Bruce Mannheim
Identity	106	(4)
Paul V. Kroskrity
Ideology	110	(3)
Joseph Errington
Ideophone	113	(3)
Dennis Tedlock
Improvisation	116	(3)
R. Keith Sawyer
Indexicality	119	(3)
William F. Hanks
Individual	122	(4)
Barbara Johnstone
Inference	126	(3)
John J. Gumperz
Intentionality	129	(3)
Alessandro Duranti
Interview	132	(4)
Charles L. Briggs
Literacy	136	(3)
Niko Besnier
Maxim	139	(4)
Stephen C. Levinson
Media	143	(4)
Debra Spitulnik
Metaphor	147	(3)
Dan Ben-Amos
Meter	150	(4)
Giorgio Banti
Music	154	(4)
Steven Feld
Aaron Fox
Names	158	(4)
Betsy Rymes
Narrative	162	(3)
Harriet E. Manelis Klein
Orality	165	(3)
Alan Rumsey
Oratory	168	(4)
Joel Kuipers
Participation	172	(4)
Marjorie H. Goodwin
Particles	176	(4)
Haruko M. Cook
Performativity	180	(4)
Kira Hall
Plagiarism	184	(3)
Ron Scollon
Poetry	187	(3)
Dell Hymes
Power	190	(3)
Susan U. Philips
Prayer	193	(4)
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez
Prophecy	197	(4)
John Leavitt
Proverb	201	(3)
Kwesi Yankah
Reconstruction	204	(4)
Victor Golla
Reflexivity	208	(4)
John A. Lucy
Register	212	(4)
Asif Agha
Relativity	216	(3)
Alessandro Duranti
Repetition	219	(4)
Penelope Brown
Signing	223	(4)
Leila Monaghan
Socialization	227	(4)
Elinor Ochs
Space	231	(4)
Elizabeth Keating
Style	235	(3)
Norma Mendoza-Denton
Switching	238	(3)
Benjamin Bailey
Syncretism	241	(3)
Jane H. Hill
Theater	244	(4)
Ingjerd Hoem
Translation	248	(4)
Regna Darnell
Truth	252	(4)
Susan D. Blum
Turn	256	(4)
Sally Jacoby
Variation	260	(4)
John Baugh
Vision	264	(4)
Charles Goodwin
Voice	268	(4)
Webb Keane
Writing	272	(3)
Antonio Perri
Index	275