Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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 |
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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 |
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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.
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anthropological linguistics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Anthropological linguistics
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Ethnolinguistik
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Kulturkontakt
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Antropologische linguïstiek.
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Ethnolinguisitique.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Brenneis, Donald Lawrence, 1946- editor.
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Macaulay, Ronald K. S., editor
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LC no. |
95043947 |
ISBN |
9780429964831 |
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0429964838 |
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9780429975912 |
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0429975910 |
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