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Title The matrix of language : contemporary linguistic anthropology / edited by Donald Brenneis and Ronald K.S. Macaulay, Pitzer College
Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part One: Learning Language, Learning Culture; 2. What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School; 3. Detective Stories at Dinnertime: Problem-Solving Through Co-Narration; 4. Har Words: A Functional Basis for Kaluli Discourse; Part Two: Gender, Power and Discourse; 5. A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication; 6. Norm-Makers, Norm-Breakers: Uses of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community; 7. The Whole Women: Sex and Gender Differences in Variation
Part Three: Genre, Style, Performance8. Biography of a Sentence: A Burmese Proverb; 9. ""Any Man Who Keeps More'n One Hound'll Lie to You"": A Contextual Study of Expressive Lying; 10. Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, Disorder, and Narrative Discourses; Part Four: Language as Social Practice; 11. Grog and Gossip in Bhatgaon: Style and Substance in Fiji Indian Conversation; 12. Reflections on a Meeting: Structure, Language, and the Polity in a Small-Scale Society; 13. When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy
14. Monoglot ""Standard"" in America: Standardization and Metaphors of Linguistic Hegemony15. The Grammer of Consciousness and the Consciousness of Grammar; About the Book and Editors; Contributors; Credits; Index
Summary "The Matrix of Language introduces students and other readers to recent debates in the study of language and culture. The articles in this anthology, selected for their readability, 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. The book is a valuable introduction in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics courses and a resource for anyone exploring the relation of language to psychology, political theory, feminist studies, and literature and folklore."--Jacket
Notes "First published 1996 by Westview Press"--Copyright page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 27, 2018)
Subject Anthropological linguistics.
anthropological linguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Anthropological linguistics
Ethnolinguistik
Kulturkontakt
Antropologische linguïstiek.
Ethnolinguisitique.
Form Electronic book
Author Brenneis, Donald Lawrence, 1946- editor.
Macaulay, Ronald K. S., editor
LC no. 95043947
ISBN 9780429964831
0429964838
9780429975912
0429975910