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• Title:Living language : an introduction to linguistic anthropology / Laura M. Ahearn.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ahearn, Laura M., 1962- author.
  
• Published/Created:Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2021.
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: P35 .A38 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Anthropological linguistics.
  Language and culture.
  
• Edition:Third edition.
  
• Description:xxi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Blackwell primers in anthropology ; 2.
  
• Summary:"Language, especially as it is used in real-life social contexts, can be absolutely fascinating but rather challenging to study. Linguistic anthropology as a discipline offers a set of concepts and tools for undertaking this challenge. My goal in this book is to provide an accessible introduction to the main principles and approaches of linguistic anthropology without overly simplifying the complex contributions of scholars in the field. To the degree that this book succeeds in accomplishing this goal, it will be useful not just to graduate and undergraduate students studying linguistic anthropology for the first time (to whom I very much hope to communicate my enthusiasm for the field) but also to all sorts of other readers who might for various reasons be interested in "living language." These readers might include, for example, cultural anthropologists, practicing anthropologists, sociologists, or political scientists who have never looked closely at language in their work but could benefit from doing so. I also hope the book will be of value to linguists whose work thus far has been more technical and abstract in nature but who would like to turn their attention to the study of actual instances of linguistic practice. And finally, I hope the book will appeal to anyone who has a natural curiosity about the central role language plays in shaping and reflecting cultural norms and social interactions."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781119608141 paperback
  1119608147 paperback
  9781119608196 electronic book
  9781119608158 electronic publication
  
• Contents:(Machine generated contents note): 1. The Socially Charged Life of Language
  So, What Do You Need to Know in Order to "Know" a Language?
  Examples of Linguistic Diversity
  Examples of Diversity in Research Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
  Keith Basso
  Marjorie Harness Goodwin
  Bonnie Urciuoli
  Alessandro Duranti
  Kathryn A. Woolard
  James M. Wilce
  Key Terms in Linguistic Anthropology
  Multifunctionality
  Language Ideologies
  Practice
  Indexicality
  The Inseparability of Language, Culture, and Social Relations
  2. Gestures, Sign Languages, and Multimodality
  Bakhtin's Double-Voiced Discourse
  Goffman's Participation Framework and Production Format
  Speech and the Analysis of Conversation
  Gestures and Other Forms of Embodied Communication
  Sign Languages
  Poetry, Whistled Languages, Song, and Images
  3. The Research Process in Linguistic Anthropology
  What Kinds of Research Questions Do Linguistic Anthropologists Formulate?
  What Kinds of Data Do Linguistic Anthropologists Collect, and with What Methods?
  Participant Observation
  Interviews
  Surveys and Questionnaires
  Naturally Occurring Conversations
  Experimental Methods
  Matched Guise Tests
  Written Texts
  How Do Linguistic Anthropologists Analyze Their Data?
  What Products Do Linguistic Anthropologists Generate from their Research?
  What Sorts of Ethical Issues Do Linguistic Anthropologists Face?
  4. Language Acquisition and Socialization
  Language Acquisition and the Socialization Process
  Gaps in the "Language Gap" Approach
  Language Socialization in Bilingual or Multilingual Contexts
  Language Socialization throughout the Lifespan
  Conclusion
  5. Language, Thought, and Culture
  A Hundred Years of Linguistic Relativity
  The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
  Investigating the Effects of Language on Thought
  Language-in-General
  Linguistic Structures
  Color
  Space
  Time
  Language Use
  Conclusion
  6. Global Communities of Multilingual Language Users
  Defining "Speech Community"
  Size and Location of the Community
  What Is Shared by the Members of a Speech Community?
  The Type of Interactions that Speech Community Members Have
  Alternatives to the Concept of "Speech Community"
  Speech Areas
  Speech Networks
  Communities of Practice
  Multilingual and Transnational Linguistic Practices
  Diglossia, Code-Mixing, and Code-Switching
  Diglossia
  Code-Switching
  Code-Mixing
  Heteroglossia
  Conclusion
  7. Literacy Practices
  Literacy Events vs. Literacy Practices
  "Autonomous" vs. "Ideological" Approaches to Studying Literacy
  Some Examples of Situated Literacy Research
  Preschool Literacy Practices in the Southeastern United States
  Pema Kumari's letter
  Love-letter Writing in Nepal
  Instant Messaging: More like Speech or Writing?
  8. Online Communities and Internet Linguistic Practices
  Online Literacy Practices
  Capitalization, Punctuation, and Emojis
  Online Communities, Relationships, and Social Media
  Who's Zoomin' Who?
  Online Avatars
  So Close and yet so Far
  Conclusion
  9. Performance, Performativity, and the Constitution of Communities
  Performance Defined in Opposition to Competence
  Performativity
  Performance as a Display of Verbal Artistry
  Ethnographies of Performance and Performativity
  10. Language and Gender
  What is Gender, and How Does it Relate to Language?
  Do Men and Women Speak Alike or Differently?
  Do Women and Men of All Ages and All Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Backgrounds Share the Same Gendered Differences in Their Language Use?
  Some Thoughts on Myths and Realities
  11. Language, Race, and Ethnicity
  Defining Race and Ethnicity
  The Rule-Governed Nature of African American English
  Invariant or Habitual "Be"
  Copula Deletion
  Double Negatives
  The Reduction of Final Consonants
  Pronouncing the Word "Ask" as "Aks"
  Racist Language and Racism in Language
  Language and Racial/Ethnic Identities
  Conclusion
  12. Language Endangerment and Revitalization
  Enumerating the Crisis: How Many Endangered Languages are There?
  What Dies When a Language Dies?
  Why Do Languages Die?
  Can Endangered Languages Be Saved?
  Conclusion
  13. Conclusion: Language, Power, and Agency
  What Is Power?
  Hegemony
  Foucault's Power Relations and Discourse
  Practice Theory and Power
  Agency
  The Grammatical Encoding of Agency
  Talk About Agency: Meta-Agentive Discourse
  Power and Agency In/through/by/of Language.