Language and Culture

by Shaul, David Leedom; Furbee, N. Louanna; Furbee-Losee, Louanna

• ISBN13: 9780881339703
• ISBN10: 0881339709
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Language, Society, and Culture	p. 7
Language as a Self-Contained System	p. 8
Language in Relation to Culture and Society	p. 16
Caveat Emptor	p. 20
Summary	p. 22
Discussion and Activities	p. 22
Key Terms	p. 24
Linguistic Particularism and Its Outgrowths	p. 27
Culture and Its Relation(s) to Language	p. 28
The Origins of Linguistic Particularism	p. 30
The Boasian Program--Boas and Sapir	p. 32
Summary	p. 36
Discussion and Activities	p. 37
Key Terms	p. 37
The Whorf Hypothesis	p. 39
Language and Knowledge	p. 40
Defining the Whorf Hypothesis	p. 43
Testing the Whorf Hypothesis	p. 45
Summary	p. 57
Discussion and Activities	p. 58
Key Terms	p. 58
Linguistic Relativity and Lexical Categories	p. 61
Homeland Studies	p. 62
Classical Semantics	p. 67
Basic Terms	p. 72
Color Studies	p. 73
Studies in Other Domains	p. 83
Summary	p. 85
Discussion and Activities	p. 86
Key Terms	p. 87
Structuralism and Semiotics	p. 89
The Systematic Structure of Language	p. 93
Structuralism and Human Behavior	p. 96
Sign Systems	p. 101
Summary	p. 103
Discussion and Activities	p. 104
Key Terms	p. 105
Signifiers in Syntax	p. 107
Semiotics All Around Us	p. 108
Gesture and Social Distance	p. 111
The Return of the Native	p. 117
Summary	p. 119
Discussion and Activities	p. 120
Key Terms	p. 123
The New Relativism (Con)text (E)merges	p. 125
The Palace Revolution in Linguistics	p. 126
Ethnoscience, the New Ethnography, and Ethnographic Semantics	p. 129
Meaning and Context	p. 133
Summary	p. 140
Discussion and Activities	p. 141
Key Terms	p. 143
Cognitive Anthropology	p. 145
Gestalt Models	p. 146
Metaphor and Metonymy	p. 155
Systems and Sharing of Knowledge	p. 159
(Con)text	p. 161
Summary	p. 165
Discussion and Activities	p. 166
Key Terms	p. 168
Interpretivism	p. 171
Philosophical Background: How We Know	p. 172
Foundations of Interpretivism	p. 175
The Sign Variously Regarded	p. 176
The Phenomenological Critique	p. 181
Summary	p. 187
Discussion and Activities	p. 188
Key Terms	p. 190
An Interpretive Version of Language and Culture Studies	p. 191
Practice Theory	p. 195
Discourse and Voices	p. 197
Determinacy and Meaning	p. 200
Summary	p. 206
Discussion and Activities	p. 207
Key Terms	p. 208
Integrations	p. 209
Two Traditions	p. 211
Integration of Traditions	p. 214
Examples	p. 216
Integration of Linguistic and Other Anthropological Studies	p. 221
Variation and Relativity	p. 222
Today and Tomorrow	p. 225
Summary	p. 228
Discussion and Activities	p. 229
Key Terms	p. 230
Postscript	p. 231
Key Terms	p. 233
Phonetics	p. 235
Key Terms	p. 237
Glossary	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 291
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