ISBN:
9780429963629
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (465 pages)
Edition:
Seventh edition
Parallel Title:
Print version Stanlaw, James Language, Culture, and Society : An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
DDC:
306.44089
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introducing Linguistic Anthropology -- Learning Objectives -- Why Should We Study Language? Language in Daily Life -- Modern Myths Concerning Languages -- A Brief History of Anthropology -- Anthropology, Linguistics, and Linguistic Anthropology -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Project -- Objective Study Questions -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 2. Methods of Linguistic Anthropology -- Learning Objectives -- Contrasting Linguistics with Linguistic Anthropology -- Three Strains of Linguistic Anthropology, and More: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives -- The Fieldwork Component, and the Components of Fieldwork -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 3. The "Nuts and Bolts" of Linguistic Anthropology I: Language Is Sound -- Learning Objectives -- Anthropologists Notice Language -- The Anatomy and Physiology of Speech -- Articulation of Speech Sounds -- From Phones to Phonemes -- Prosodic Features -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Objective Study Questions -- Problems -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 4. The "Nuts and Bolts" of Linguistic Anthropology II: Structure of Words and Sentences -- Learning Objectives -- Combining Sounds into Larger Formal and Meaningful Units -- Morphemes and Allomorphs -- Morphological Processes -- Morphophonemics -- Showing Grammatical Relationships: Inflections Versus Word Order -- Chomsky and Transformational-Generative Grammar -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion
Abstract:
Objective Study Questions -- Problems -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 5. Communicating Nonverbally -- Learning Objectives -- Paralinguistics -- Kinesics -- Proxemics -- Sign Languages -- Writing -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Project -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 6. The Development and Evolution of Language: Language Birth, Language Growth, and Language Death -- Learning Objectives -- Communication and Its Channels -- Communication Among Nonhuman Primates -- When Does a Communication System Become Language? -- Design Features of Language -- Language as an Evolutionary Product -- Monogenesis Versus Polygenesis -- The Life and Death of Languages -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Projects -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 7. Acquiring and Using Language(s): Life with First Languages, Second Languages, and More -- Learning Objectives -- The First Steps of Language Acquisition in Childhood -- Some Theories of Language Acquisition -- Language and the Brain -- Bilingual and Multilingual Brains -- Code-Switching, Code-Mixing, and Diglossia -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Projects -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 8. Language Through Time -- Learning Objectives -- How Languages Are Classified -- Internal and External Changes -- How and Why Sound Changes Occur -- Reconstructing Protolanguages -- Reconstructing the Ancestral Homeland -- Time Perspective in Culture -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Objective Study Questions
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Problems -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 9. Languages in Variation and Languages in Contact -- Learning Objectives -- Idiolects -- Dialects -- Styles -- Language Contact -- Pidgins -- From Pidgins to Creoles -- Language Contact in the Contemporary World -- The World of Languages -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Projects -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 10. The Ethnography of Communication -- Learning Objectives -- Speech Community and Related Concepts -- Units of Speech Behavior -- Components of Communication -- Recent Trends in the Ethnography of Speaking -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 11. Culture as Cognition, Culture as Categorization: Meaning and Language in the Conceptual World -- Learning Objectives -- The Scope of Semantics -- Concepts, Words, and Categories -- The Rise and (Relative) Fall of Ethnoscience -- Meaning in Discourse and Conversation -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Projects -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 12. Language, Culture, and Thought -- Learning Objectives -- The Double-Edged Sword of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: Linguistic Determinism and Linguistic Relativity -- The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Reconsidered -- Color Nomenclature and Other Challenges to Linguistic Relativity -- Theoretical Alternatives to Linguistic Relativity -- Future Tests of Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Projects -- Objective Study Questions
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Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 13. Language, Identity, and Ideology I: Variations in Gender -- Learning Objectives -- "Gender" Versus "Sex" -- Grammatical Versus Biological Gender -- Do Men and Women Speak Differently? -- Gender and Language: Theoretical Movements -- Does Grammatical Gender Affect How We Think? -- Language and Gender: Hegemony, Power, and Ideology -- Language in Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Subcultures -- Some Current Thoughts on Language and Gender Differences -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Projects -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 14. Language, Identity, and Ideology II: Variations in Class, "Race," Ethnicity, and Nationality -- Learning Objectives -- Language, Social Class, and Identity -- Language, "Race," and Ethnicity -- Language and Nationality -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Projects -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- 15. The Linguistic Anthropology of a Globalized and Digitalized World -- Learning Objectives -- Language Planning -- Literacy, Writing, and Education -- Intercultural Communication -- Always On: New Literacies and Language in an Online Global World -- Ethical Questions and Standards of Conduct -- Summary and Conclusions -- Resource Manual and Study Guide -- Questions for Discussion -- Project -- Objective Study Questions -- Answer Key -- Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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