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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33360801 Title: The matrix of language : contemporary linguistic anthropology Author: Donald Lawrence Brenneis; Ronald K S Macaulay Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996. ISBN/ISSN: 0813323207 9780813323206 0813323215 9780813323213 OCLC:33360801

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The matrix of language : contemporary linguistic anthropology

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The matrix of language : contemporary linguistic anthropology

Author:	Donald Lawrence Brenneis; Ronald K S Macaulay
Publisher:	Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Matrix of language. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996 (OCoLC)647072242
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Donald Lawrence Brenneis; Ronald K S Macaulay Find more information about:
ISBN:	0813323207 9780813323206 0813323215 9780813323213
OCLC Number:	33360801
Description:	ix, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Part One: Learning, language, learning culture. What no bedtime story means: narrative skills at home and school / Shirley Brice Heath -- Detective stories at dinnertime: problem-solving through co-narration / Elinor Ochs, Ruth Smith, and Carolyn Taylor -- Hard words: a functional basis for Kaluli discourse / Steven Feld and Bambi B. Schieffelin. Part Two: Gender, power, and discourse. A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A Borker -- Norm-makers, norm-breakers: uses of speech by men and women in a Malagasy community / Elinor Keenan (Ochs) -- The whole woman: sex and gender differences in variation / Penelope Eckert. Part Three: Genre, style, performance. Biography of a sentence: a Burmese proverb / A. L. Becker -- "Any man who keeps more'n one hound'll lie to you": a contextual study of expressive lying / Richard Bauman -- Carne, Carnales, and the carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, disorder, and narrative discourses / Jose E. Limon. Part Four: Language as social practice. Grog and gossip in Bhatgaon: style and substance in Fiji Indian conversation / Donald Brenneis -- Reflections on a meeting: structure, language, and the polity in a small-scale society / Fred R. Myers -- When talk isn't cheap: language and political economy / Judith T. Irvine -- Monoglot "standard" in America: standardization and metaphors of linguistic hegemony / Michael Silverstein -- The grammar of consciousness and the consciousness of grammar / Jane H. Hill.
Responsibility:	edited by Donald Brenneis and Ronald K.S. Macaulay.
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