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9780511166631

Language, Culture, and Society : Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

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    9780511166631

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    051116663X

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  • Copyright: 2006-05-11
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Walking through walls
An issue about language
Linguistic relativities
Benjamin Lee Whorf and the boasian foundations of contemporary ethnolinguistics
Cognitive anthropology
Methodological issues in cross-language colour naming
Pidgins and creoles genesis: an anthropological offering
Bilingualism
The impact of language socialization on grammatical development
Intimate grammars: anthropological and psychoanalytic accounts of language, gender, and desire
Maximizing ethnopoetics: toward the fine-tuning (anthropological) experience
Of phonemes, fossils and webs of meaning: the interpretation of language variation and change
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