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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alessandro Duranti |
| ISBN: | 0521445361 9780521445368 0521449936 9780521449939 |
| OCLC Number: | 35770895 |
| Description: | 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The scope of linguistic anthropology -- Definitions -- The study of linguistic practices -- Linguistic anthropology and other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences -- Linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics -- Theoretical concerns in contemporary linguistic anthropology -- Performance -- Indexicality -- Participation -- Theories of culture -- Culture as distinct from nature -- Culture as knowledge -- Culture as socially distributed knowledge -- Culture as communication -- Levi-Strauss and the semiotic approach -- Clifford Geertz and the interpretive approach -- The indexicality approach and metapragmatics -- Metaphors as folk theories of the world -- Culture as a system of mediation -- Culture as a system of practices -- Culture as a system of participation -- Predicting and interpreting -- Linguistic diversity -- Language in culture: the Boasian tradition -- Franz Boas and the use of native languages -- Sapir and the search for languages' internal logic -- Benjamin Lee Whorf, worldviews, and cryptotypes -- Linguistic relativity -- Language as objectification of the world: from von Humboldt to Cassirer -- Language as a guide to the world: metaphors -- Color terms and linguistic relativity -- Language and science -- Language, languages, and linguistic varieties -- Linguistic repertoire -- Speech communities, heteroglossia, and language ideologies -- Speech community: from idealization to heteroglossia -- Multilingual speech communities -- Definitions of speech community -- Ethnographic methods -- Ethnography. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge textbooks in linguistics. |
| Responsibility: | Alessandro Duranti. |
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