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Title Social anthropology and language / edited by Edwin Ardener
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (cii, 318 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography
Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.
Contents Introductory essay : social anthropology and language / Edwin Ardener -- Early British anthropologists and language / Hilary Henson -- Malinowski, Firth, and the 'context of situation' / R.H. Robins -- Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking / Dell Hymes -- Customs and cases of verbal behaviour / J.B. Pride -- A note on multilingualism / W.H. Whiteley -- Some coastal pidgins of West Africa / Elizabeth Tonkin -- Some observations on language variety and plurilingualism / N. Denison -- Prosodic and paralinguistic correlates of social categories / D. Crystal -- Social anthropology and the historicity of historical linguistics / Edwin Ardener -- The quartered shield : outline of a semantic taxonomy / G.B. Milner -- Some ideas of Saussure applied to Buryat magical drawings / Caroline Humphrey
Summary Providing a critical framework for the consideration of the relationship between modern social anthropology and linguistics, this volume covers topics such as classification, symbolism, and structuralism. The relevance of the works of Saussure, Lévi-Strauss and Chomsky is considered. There are two case-studies: the first outlines a 'social history' of the succession of pidgins that are documented on the West African coast, ending with Pidgin English. The second analyzes the status of three language varieties used in a 'trilingual' community in the Carnian Alps. Originally published in 1971
Notes Originally published: London : Tavistock, 1971
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Sociolinguistics
Antropologische linguïstiek.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Ardener, Edwin
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