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• Title:Language in culture : lectures on the social semiotics of language / Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago ; completed with the editorial assistance of E. Summerson Carr, University of Chicago, Susan Gal, University of Chicago, Constantine V. Nakassis, University of Chicago.
  
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• Author/Creator:Silverstein, Michael, 1945-2020, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Carr, E. Summerson, 1969- editor.
  Gal, Susan, 1949- editor.
  Nakassis, Constantine V., 1979- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
  ©2023
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: P35 .S57 2023
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Language and culture.
  Communication.
  Discourse analysis.
  
• Description:xv, 353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (1945-2020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures. Focusing not just on what people say but how we say it, Silverstein shows how discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that discourse far exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity. Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose, Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples - from brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau's pantomime, the class-laced banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on forebears in linguistics and anthropology while offering his distinctive semiotic approach, redefining how we think about language and culture"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781009198837 hardcover
  1009198831 hardcover
  9781009198844 paperback
  100919884X paperback
  9781009198813 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Lecture 1 Text
  Lecture 2 Event
  Lecture 3 Context
  Lecture 4 Enregisterment
  Lecture 5 Variation
  Lecture 6 Categoriality
  Lecture 7 Relativity
  Lecture 8 Knowledge.