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Provides an expansive view of the full field of linguistic anthropology, featuring an all-new team of contributing authors representing diverse new perspectives
A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a timely and authoritative overview of the field of study that explores how language influences society and culture. Bringing together more than 30 original essays by an interdisciplinary panel of renowned scholars and younger researchers, this comprehensive volume covers a uniquely wide range of both classic and contemporary topics as well as cutting-edge research methods and emerging areas of investigation.
Building upon the success of its predecessor, the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, this new edition reflects current trends and developments in research and theory. Entirely new chapters discuss topics such as the relationship between language and experiential phenomena, the use of research data to address social justice, racist language and raciolinguistics, postcolonial discourse, and the challenges and opportunities presented by social media, migration, and global neoliberalism. Innovative new research analyzes racialized language in World of Warcraft, the ethics of public health discourse in South Africa, the construction of religious doubt among Orthodox Jewish bloggers, hybrid forms of sociality in videoconferencing, and more.
A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropologyis a must-have for researchers, scholars, and undergraduate and graduate students in linguistic anthropology, as well as an excellent text for those in related fields such as sociolinguistics, discourse studies, semiotics, sociology of language, communication studies, and language education.
Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). One of the most respected linguistic anthropologists in the world, Professor Duranti has authored and edited many of the defining volumes in the field. He is the co-founder of the journal Pragmatics, former editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and past President of the Society of Linguistic Anthropology.
Rachel George is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Whitman College, where she teaches courses in linguistic and cultural anthropology, the anthropology of digital media, and ethnographic methods. Her work on language usage among Serbian young adults has been published in Language in Society and Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
Robin Conley Riner is Professor of Anthropology at Marshall University. Her work in linguistic and legal anthropology investigates how people use language to navigate morally complex experiences surrounding institutional death and killing. She is the author of Confronting the Death Penalty and co-editor of Language and Social Justice in Practice.
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1Robin Conley Riner and Rachel George
Part I: Speech Communities and Their Contested Boundaries 13
1 On the Social Lives of Indigenous North American Languages 15Paul V. Kroskrity and Barbra A. Meek
2 Creolization: Its Context, Power, and Meaning 33Christine Jourdan
3 Language Endangerment and Renewal 49Sean O’Neill
4 Narrating Transborder Communities 66Elizabeth Falconi
5 Mixing, Switching, and Languaging in Interaction 86Jan David Hauck and Teruko Vida Mitsuhara
6 Postcolonial Semiotics 107Angela Reyes
7 Deaf Communities: Constellations, Entanglements, and Defying Classifications 122Erin Moriarty and Lynn Hou
8 Global Hip Hop: Style, Language, and Globalization 139H. Samy Alim
Part II: Literacies and Textualities Across Time and Space 157
9 Ancient Literacy Practices and Script Communities 159Alice Mandell
10 Rethinking Translation and Transduction 178Susan Gal
11 Social Dramas: A Semiotic Approach 194Kristina Wirtz
12 Digital Literacies 214Rachel Flamenbaum and Rachel George
13 Digital Religious Discourse 235Ayala Fader
14 Linguistic Anthropology of the Visual 253Jennifer F. Reynolds
15 Technobodily Literacy in Video Interaction 273Samira Ibnelkaïd
16 Ethics and Language 299Steven P. Black
Part III: Speaking, Sensing, and Sounding 315
17 Contested Intentions 317Alessandro Duranti
18 Entanglements of Language and Experience in Everyday Life 334Elinor Ochs
19 Affect, Emotion, and Linguistic Shift 354Kathryn E. Graber
20 Using the Senses in Animal Communication 369Erica A. Cartmill
21 Human Touch 391Asta Cekaite and Marjorie Harness Goodwin
22 Socialization of Attention 410Lourdes de León
23 Sound, Voice, and the Felt Body 428Patrick Eisenlohr
24 Multimodality 443Keith M. Murphy
25 Language and Food 461Jillian R. Cavanaugh and Kathleen C. Riley
Part IV: Language, Power, and Justice 477
26 Language Policy and Ethnic Conflict 479Christina P. Davis
27 Secrecy 494Erin Debenport
28 Legal Language and Its Ideologies 509Robin Conley Riner
29 Language, Gender, Race, and Sexuality: Intersectional Perspectives 525Lal Zimman
30 Engaged Linguistic Anthropology 542Netta Avineri and Jocelyn Ahlers
31 Language and Racism 560Krystal A. Smalls and Jenny L. Davis
32 Communicative Justice and Health 577Charles L. Briggs
33 The Force of Indexicality 596Alessandro Duranti
Index 614
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