ISBN:
978-0-8133-2320-6
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 338 S.
Keywords:
Soziolinguistik Sprache
;
Sprachwissenschaft
;
Kultur
;
Sozialisation
;
Sexualität
;
Geschlechterrolle
Abstract:
Offering students and other readers an introduction to recent debates in the study of language and culture, the articles in this anthology present a range of methodological approaches and well-known case studies that illustrate the interconnection of language, culture and social practice. The editors' introductory essays compare and contrast specific approaches in four broad areas: language and socialization, gender, the ethnography of speaking, and the role of language in social and political life.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 1, Learning language, learning culture. What no bedtime story means: narrative skills at home and at school / Shirley B. Heath; Detective stories at dinnertime / E. Ochs, Ruth Smith, Carolyn Taylor; Hard words: a functional basis for Kaluli discourse / Steven Feld, B.B. Schieffelin; Part 2, Gender, power and discourse. A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / D.N. Maltz, R.A. Borker; Norm-makers, norm-breakers: uses of speech by men and women in a Malagasy community / E. Keenan Ochs; The whole woman / P. Eckert; Part 3, 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 / R. Bauman; Carne, carnales and carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, disorder and narrative discourses / J.E. Limón; Part 4, Language as social practice. Grog and gossip in Bahtgoan Fiji Indian conversation / D. Brenneis; Reflections on a meeting / F.R. Myers; When talk isn't cheap: language and political economy / J.T. Irvine; Monoglot "standard" in America / M. Silverstein; The grammar of consciousness and the consciousness of grammar / Jane H. Hill.
