Peter Lang, 2011. — xii, 166 p. — (Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics). — ISBN: 978-3-0353-0120-5. This volume contains selected chapters from researchers and scholars concerning global English in the Arab world. It brings a new perspective to the phenomenon of global English as today’s lingua franca by focusing on an area of the world that is troubled by the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — xviii, 196 p. — (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Language Variation). — ISBN 978-0-230-58242-2. This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems...
New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2002. — x, 294 p. — (New Americans). — ISBN: 1-931202-24-9. Using ethnography and discourse analysis of peer interaction, Bailey shows how Dominican Americans negotiate and transform racial structure at a Rhode Island high school. The Dominican American students think of themselves as "Spanish" or "Hispanic," identities that are at odds with...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — xxi, 316 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-509711-4; 0-19-509712-2. The Problem of Michif Short Structural Sketch of Michif The Place of Michif in the Study of Language Contact Some Hypotheses on the Genesis of Michif Outline of the Book European-Amerindian Contact in the Fur Trade[/b] Native Peoples in North...
Wydanie drugie uzupełnione. — Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej. — Lublin, 2007. — 283 s. Szkice zebrane w tomie Językowe podstawy obrazu świata stanową zapis kilkuletnich wysiłków poznawczych podejmowanych przez autora - często we współpracy z podobnie myślącymi Koleżankami i Kolegami - i szukania własnej drogi na polu badawczym obejmującym szeroko rozumiane...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — xvi, 356 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-07275-8. This study asserts that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how differences between languages legitimated social inequalities. It claims that savages and ancients were judged alike because they used language...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xxiv, 371 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-54081-3. The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of inquiry. In this book Giovanni Bennardo discusses the relationship between language and the mental organization of knowledge, based...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 456 p. — ASIN B00GDF0J5M. Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 541 p. — ASIN B00GDF0J5M. Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — xviii, 256 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-1.9 0 10888-4. Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of a hierarchical...
Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Etnolingüísticas y Antropológico-Sociales, 2008. — 186 páginas. Apuntes de lingüística antropológica contiene los principales temas del programa de la asignatura Principios de Lingüística Antropológica. Considerando la lengua como sistema de comunicación y sistema simbólico de la cultura, el estudio de las relaciones entre lengua,...
London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009 — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1847065716; ISBN13: 978-1847065711. Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired...
Multilingual Matters, 1998. — viii, 129 p. — ISBN 1-85359-430-X. The book presents case studies of immigrant minority groups and immigrant minority languages in Europe and abroad, analysed from demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives. The demographic perspective focuses on the role of language and ethnicity in multicultural population statistics, the...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — xii, 259 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-512161-9. Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors,...
Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2006. — 339 p. This book challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can frequently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone. This volume shows how new perspectives on...
London, Ne York: Routledge, 2000. — 528 p. This is a core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings to have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity. Part 1. Structure and Agency in the Language. Part 2. Unity and Diversity in Language. Part 3. Languages, Cultures, Communities.
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C. 1980. — 175 p. — ISBN: 0-87281-134-4 Eight essays in ethnolinguistics were compiled for this monograph. "Functions of Speech: An Evolutionary Approach" represents an introduction to the application of linguistic knowledge to the historical and sociological study of peoples. "Speech and Language: On the Origins and Foundaticns of...
Lyons Press, 2017. — 147 p. — ASIN B077Q2LT4F, ISBN 1630762822. The language of Hollywood resonates beyond the stage and screen because it often has inherent drama-or comedic effect. This volume contains a combination of approximately 100 expertly researched essays on words, phrases and idioms made famous by Hollywood along with the stories behind 30 or so of the most...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 218 p. Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 218 p. Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of...
Canadian Scholars Press (2004). — 235 p. ISBN: 1-55130-252-7 Quality: good Language can be studied from several angles. The focus on the relation between language, thought and culture is known as anthropological linguistics (AL). This text constitutes a basic introduction to the subject matter and techniques of AL. Traditionally, anthropological linguists have aimed to document...
The New Press, 2008. — xxvi, 229 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59558-350-5. Now in paperback, The Skin That We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly charged war of idioms and presents today’s teachers with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English that we speak, in what Black Issues Book Review calls “an essential text.” Edited by bestselling...
John Benjamins, 1991. — viii, 255 p. — ISBN: 90-272-2081-6 / 1-55619-117-0. An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015. — xii + 243 p. — (Studies in Phonology Laboratory 2). — ISBN: 978-3-946234-24-1; ISBN: 978-3-946234-25-8; ISBN: 978-3-944675-56-5. Speakers use a variety of different linguistic resources in the construction of their identities, and they are able to do so because their mental representations of linguistic and social information are linked....
Cambridge University Press, 1997. - 420 p. In this innovative textbook, Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The theories and methods of linguistic anthropology are introduced through a discussion of linguistic diversity, grammar in use, the role of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. — 531 p. — (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series). — ISBN10: 9027251185, 13 978-9027251183. It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the...
University of California Press, 2006. — xvi, 328 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-520-24879-3. Little India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr's groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediated...
New York: Pantheon Books, 2012. — 430 p. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. In this bold and provocative study, linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of...
Multilingual Matters, 2004. — x, 428 p. — ISBN: 1-85359-779-1; ISBN: 1-85359-778-3. This book focuses on the increase of urban multilingualism in Europe as a consequence of processes of migration and minorisation. It offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on immigrant minority languages at home and in school in six multicultural cities across...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 306 p. — ISBN 9781498579278, ASIN 1498579272. — English, Italiano This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from the perspective of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture in discourse. The objects of the analysis are the...
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. — xii, 400 p. — ISBN: 0-8058-4345-0; ISBN: 0-8058-4346-9. This book documents how the future in a globalizing world is not only increasingly multilingual, but that diversity in language use (within one language and across languages) will always be with us. Most of the chapters in Ethnolinguistic Chicago are based on ethnographic studies of...
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005. — xii, 398 p. — ISBN: 0-8058-4347-7; ISBN: 0-8058-4348-5. This volume fills an important gap in research on Chicago and, more generally, on language use in globalized metropolitan areas. Often cited as a quintessential American city, Chicago is, and always has been, a city of immigrants. It is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — x, 294 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-510683-0. Anuta is a small Polynesian community in the eastern Solomon Islands that has had minimal contact with outside cultural forces. Even at the end of the twentieth century, it remains one of the most traditional and isolated islands in the insular Pacific. In Oral...
Mouton, 1985. — xvi, 531 p. — (Contributions to the Sociology of Language). — ISBN: 3-11-010604-3. Contributions to the sociology of language brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — xii, 468 p. — ISBN: 0-19-512428-6. The literature on ethnicity is already huge and is constantly being added to. It is also international and, therefore, multilingual, large parts of it being regrettably inaccessible to readers who depend on English (or any other single language) for their familiarity with this topic. Finally, it is...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 255 p. — ISBN10: 1349501395, 13 978-1349501397. Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a...
Blackwell, 2001. — F40 — 504 p. — ISBN: 7-5600-2191-3. Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press is to be congratulated on its initiative in making these publications in linguistics available to foreign language teachers and postgraduate students of linguistics in China. The books are a representative selection of up-to-date writings on the most im portant branches of...
SAGE, 2004. — vi, 226 p. — ISBN: 0-7619-6641-2; ISBN: 0-7619-6642-0. This book is about how society is accomplished in and through social interaction, how language is central to this accomplishment and how the interactional nature of social life may be investigated. We invite the reader to share in not only a particular vision of social life, as constituted in and through...
The University of Arizona Press, 2010. — xxii, 161 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8165-2767-0. In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged context of contemporary Guatemala. Beginning with an examination of the “nationalist project” that has been...
Mouton de Gruyter. 2006. — 350 p. — (Studies on Language Acquisition). — ISBN10: 3110191253. This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective. The starting point for this book is the assumption that speech acts are realized from culture to culture in different ways and that these differences may result in communication difficulties that range...
Brill, 2009. — vi, 280 p. — (Russian history and culture). — ISBN: 978-90-04-17571-6. Historians habitually write about empires that expand, wage wars, and collapse, as if empires were self-evident and self-conscious entities with a distinct and clear sense of purpose. The stories of empires are told in the language of modern nation-centred social sciences: multi-cultural and...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — xviii, 221 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-51991-5. While much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relationships, we know less about how this plays out interactionally in diverse transient settings. Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social...
John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam / Philadelphia. 2008. — 364 p. Includes Indices. — (Pragmatics and Beyond). — ISBN: 9027254192 This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative...
Routledge, 2011. — 296 p. Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction of meaning which...
Liveright, 2018. — 227 p. — ISBN 10 9781631495113, ASIN 1631495119. Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle,...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — xx, 234 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8014-5262-8; ISBN: 978-0-8014-7926-7. In After Newspeak, Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies. Gorham begins from the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and...
Multilingual Matters, 1983. — v, 152 p. — (British Studies in Applied Linguistics). — ISBN13: 9780585231228. Papers from the 24th Annual Meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics was held at Trevelyan College, University of Durham, September 1991. It brought together over 170 delegates representing not only diverse language communities, but diverse use within...
Delacorte Press, 2011. — 336 p. What is it about other people’s language that moves some of us to anxiety or even rage? For centuries, sticklers the world over have donned the cloak of authority to control the way people use words. Now this sensational new book strikes back to defend the fascinating, real-life diversity of this most basic human faculty. With the erudite yet...
Multilingual Matters, 1988. — iii, 171 p. — ISBN13: 9780585240787. The purpose of this volume is to present representative and innovative research on the topics studied under the rubric 'language and ethnic identity' conducted in several different areas of the world. The research presented uses a variety of methodological approaches, including matched-guise experiments,...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. — x, 287 p. — (Contributions to the Sociology of Language). — ISBN: 0-89925-097-1. There is a great amount of literature on ethnicity problems written in English and in Russian. Researchers in the Western world who have little or no knowledge of Russian tend to discuss subjects related to ethnic identity in isolation from and ignorance of the views on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — xii, 216 p. — (Language and Globalization). — ISBN 1–4039–0787–0 / 0–230–55437–7. The authors address one of the most significant aspects of social life in our times: that of cultural identities and identifications, and of the ways we construct them through our speech and the narrative of ourselves and others. They combine a theoretical re-assessment...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — viii, 209 p. — (Language and Globalization). — ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–9894–1. The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized as dominant voices both inside and outside their communities, seeking to foreground and hold in place alternative positionings of them as primarily...
University of New Mexico Press, 2013. — xii, 243 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8263-5273-6. This study situates itself geographically in the K’iche’-speaking region of Guatemala and makes Maya language both the object of inquiry and the language of investigation. The book follows a project design that combines scientific and humanistic approaches from linguistic, medical, and sociocultural...
Second Edition. — Continuum 2006. — xi, 233 p. — (Advances in Sociolinguistics). — ISBN: 0-8264-8690-8. The book has aims that are theoretical, methodological and social. It has a point to make about how sociolinguistics can contribute to discoveries about social change, and about the relationship between agency and structure. It is also specifically about a particular question...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — x, 223 p. — (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics). — ISBN: 978-0-19-974686-6; 978-0-19-974685-9. In Paths to Post-Nationalism, Monica Heller shows how hegemonic discourses of language, identity, and the nation-State are destabilized under new political and economic conditions. These processes, she argues, put us on the path to post-nationalism....
Oxford University Press, 1996. — xii, 220 p. — ISBN: 0-19-509476-X ; ISBN: 0-19-709477-8. In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel...
Publication details not specified. — 37 p. Methods in sociolinguistics The development of sociolinguistics Sociolinguistic data The linguistic variable The question of co-variation Indicators and markers Register and hypercorrection Sociolinguistics and language change Social networks The Belfast investigations Types of speech communities Where do standards come from?...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — xiv, 238 p. — ISBN 1–4039–0396–4. Minority languages are part of Europe's shared cultural heritage and there is a broad consensus that it is important to protect and encourage linguistic and cultural diversity during the process of continuing European integration. But what legislative and policy instruments can be effective? Are there conflicts...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — xvi, 255 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-509789-0; ISBN: 0-19-510914-7. A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et al--cannot help but fundamentally alter...
John Benjamins, 1983. — xxiv, 306 p. — (Studies in the History of Linguistics). — ISBN: 90-272-4507-X. Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the two disciplines have partly shared, partly differed in the nature of their materials, their favorite types of problem...
Taylor & Francis, 1996. — xiv, 258 p. — ISBN: 0-203-21181-2. This collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and linguistics.; The first section of the book pinpoints characteristics of anthropology that most make a difference to research in education....
M? KY? *PRESS Bragg Creek, 2002 (Originally published in 1992) ISBN: 0-88953-161-7 This book is akin to a family gathering or collection that turns around several interrelated themes: pedagogy, generativity, interpretation, ecology, feminism, narrative/story and questions of the language appropriate to such themes.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — ISBN 0–333–99752–2; ISBN 0–333–99753–0. Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, cultural, and personal identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some general principles concerning the links between language and...
(Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language). — Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 323 p. — ISBN10: 0-521-61474-0, ISBN13: 978-0-521-61474-0 Quality: good Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 251 p. — (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series). — ISBN10: 1349527831, ISBN13: 978-1349527830. This edited collection examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present...
Novato, California, 1968. — 219 p. Issies and Approaches Basic Concepts World-View Universals A cross-Cultural Model of World Views Logico-structural Aspects of World View California Indian World View Mexican Peasant World View Conclusions, Criticisms, and Suggestions
Oxford University Press, 1998. — xi, 214 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-511197-4. This study combines ethnography with a number of other methods, including linguistic analysis at the phrase and morpheme level, the analysis of naturally occurring talk developed by conversation analysts and discourse analysts, ethnographies of speaking, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — x, 246 p. — (Language, culture and cognition). — ISBN: 978-0-521-51639-6. Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded...
Springer. 2005. — 282 p. — ISBN: 0387242376 The premise that writing is a socially-situated act of interaction between readers and writers is well established. This volume first, corroborates this premise by citing pertinent evidence, through the analysis of written texts and interactive writing contexts, and from educational settings across different cultures from which we...
Linguoculturology: Basic problems and concepts. - Ankara: Gaziyinevi, 2014. - 176 p. A collection of articles on linguoculturology, published in Russia/Turkey in Russian and translated into Turkish. Kültürdilbilim nedir? (O.Kozan) Kültürdilbilim: Özü ve Yöntemi Yazar: Ye.N.Grin’ko Çevirmen: C.Paşalıoğlu Dilbilimsel Disiplinler Arasında Kültürdilbilimin Yeri Yazar: L.İ.Ruçina...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — xii, 273 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-509407-7; ISBN: 0-19-509408-5. Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "let's buy a chair," they won't? In Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers,...
Peter Lang, 2015. — xii, 275 p. — (Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics). — ISBN: 978-3-0353-0736-8. This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. A unique work, it encompasses an overview of the grammar of Polar Eskimo – a language spoken by...
Springer, 2015. — xvi, 202 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-12619-7. These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — xiv, 268 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88136-4. Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis have an elusive relationship with organisation studies (OS). They are often used to motivate and inform developments in the field, including for example the ‘linguistic turn’ and the growing interest in ‘practice’. However, empirical contributions informed by...
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. — xx + 485 p. — ISBN: 978-90-272-3243-4 ; ISBN: 978-90-272-9170-7. The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2017. — 148 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198724-99-5. The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organizations like the UN or the EU. How did the world acquire so many languages? Why can't we all speak one language, like...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — xiv, 270 p. — (Language and Globalization). — ISBN 0–230–00018–5. The themes and threads underpinning the chapters of this book arise from considering the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the face of processes of globalization. However, it is also our belief that discussions of the global – the macro level – must be informed by...
Multilingual Matters, 2009. — xxiv, 304 p. — (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism). — ISBN13: 978-1-84769-160-6; ISBN13: 978-1-84769-159-0. Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity takes a critical perspective on traditional bio-cognitive-social approaches to language disabilities – specific language impairment, communication difficulties, dyslexia and...
John Benjamins, 2001. — xxi, 244 p. — (IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society). — ISBN: 90-272-1838-2 / 1 58811 002 8. Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmonious communities, in spite of the social...
Oxford University Press. 2014. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-936158-8 Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which...
Oxford University Press. 2014. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-936158-8 Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which...
Henry Holt and Co, 2016. — 185 p. — ISBN10: 1627794719. — ISBN13: 978-1627794718 A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it Language is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the...
Mouton, 1968. — 130 p. The linguistic relativity thesis, according to Miller, had its origin about the beginning of the nineteenth century. Johann Georg Hamann is said to be the first writer in Germany to deal with the influence of language on thought (p. 14), and his work, together with that of Johann Gottfried Herder, contains foreshadowings (but no explicit formulation) of...
University of California Press, 2010. — xiv, 277 p. — (South Asia Across the Disciplines). — ISBN: 978-0-520-26269-0. This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — xiv, 225 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-41432-8. Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and imaginations about the cultures and...
Palgrave Macmillan 2001. — xii, 228 p. — ISBN 0–333–92924–1. The political and social upheavals following 1989 have had a significant impact on the minority languages of Eastern Europe. There have been attempts at enlightened treatment of minority linguistic groups in some of the new states but in others such groups have been openly oppressed. This volume draws on...
Open Society Institute, 2009. — 77 p. Police officers in Paris consistently stop people on the basis of ethnicity and dress rather than on the basis of suspicious individual behavior, according to a report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative. The report documents over 500 police stops over a one-year period and across five locations in and around the Gare du Nord...
Third Edition. — Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013. — xxii, 234 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-111-82885-1. Ottenheimer's authoritative yet approachable introduction to the field's methodology, skills, techniques, tools, and applications emphasizes the kinds of questions that anthropologists ask about language and the kinds of questions that intrigue students. The text brings together the...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — xv, 212 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19337-5. Once a predominantly African-American city, South Vista opened the twenty-first century with a large Latino/a majority and a significant population of Pacific Islanders. Using an innovative blend of critical ethnography and social language methodologies, Paris offers the voices and experiences of South...
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. — xiv, 235 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8032-2529-9. Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts to bring their traditional languages back through educational programs, for some communities these efforts are not enough or have come...
Method and Theory in Linguistics, Edited by Paul L. Garvin. — Mouton, 1970. — pp. 27 – 41. Events in the recent history of the field of linguistics have emphasized the autonomy of the discipline. New boundaries have been created by the extraordinary attention paid to theory, models and the form of rules for presenting the statement of an analysis. We use the term...
Routledge, 2007. — xvii, 337 p. — ISBN: 0-203-94298-1. This work explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into the realm of public and parliamentary discourse in Canada during the decade of the 1970s. The emergence of the vocabulary is chronicled through a study of the testimony of First Nations and aboriginal witnesses before a series of Joint...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 274 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture). — ISBN10: 3319897365, 13 978-3319897363. This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 265 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture). — ISBN10: 3319897365, 13 978-3319897363. This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that...
Irvington Publishers, 1979. — v, 299 p. — ISBN: 0-470-26670-8. The studies in this volume are united with the focus on everyday language, spoken and written. All are concerned with discovering and studying the organizational features of natural language whether in the form of telephone conversation openings, the production of a sentence, a newspaper story or a map. Each of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — xiv, 400 p. — ISBN: 0-521-32346-0; ISBN: 0-521-31168-3. The papers in this volume, a multidisciplinary collaboration of anthropologists, linguists, and psychologists, explore the ways in which cultural knowledge is organized and used in everyday language and understanding. Employing a variety of methods, which rely heavily on linguistic data,...
Multilingual Matters, 2001, — 272 p. — (Modern Languages in Practice 16. Series Editor: Michael Grenfell). ISBN: 1-85359-503-9 (hbk). ISBN: 1-85359-502-0 (pbk). This book looks at the role of cultural studies and intercultural communication in language learning. The book argues that learners who have an opportunity to stay in the target language country can be trained to do an...
Brill, 2008. — xxiv, 191 p. — (International Comparative Social Studies). — ISBN: 978-90-04-16235-8. This is a book about cultures, and about the motivations of those who participate in them. More precisely, the approach here is to differentiate among cultures solely in terms of how their members typically understand each other’s motivations. Such understanding is not...
Cambridge University Press, 2015 — xvi, 224 p. — (Cambridge Library Collection). — ISBN: 978-1-108-00617-0. From the earliest surviving glossaries and translations to nineteenth-century academic philology and the growth of linguistics during the twentieth century, language has been the subject both of scholarly investigation and of practical handbooks produced for the upwardly...
Lexington Books, 2010. — xxvi, 289. — ISBN: 978-0-7391-3740-6. Since the West's very early flirtations with the modern Near East, and especially in the past 100 years of East-West relations, there has been considerable difficulty in understanding and defining the Middle East, the Arab world, pan-Arabism, Arab nationalism, and Middle Eastern identities in general. The Western...
Fifth Edition. — Westview Press, 2012. — x, 434 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8133-4541-3. Contains exercises and suggestions for independent work with answers to the exercises, a glossary and an extensive bibliography, as well as a map indicating the location of the languages covered. New coauthors James Stanlaw and Nobuko Adachi joined Zdenek Salzmann in revising this pedagogically sound,...
5th ed. — Westview Press, 2012. — 448 p. For four previous editions, professor have turned to Zdenek Salzmann’s Language, Culture, and Society for its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology, as well as for its reputation as a pedagogically sound, student-friendly text. New coauthors James Stanlaw and Nobuko Adachi join Salzmann in revising...
University of California Press, n.d. — x, 207 p. — ISBN: 520-01116-3. Selected Essays. This selection of Edward Sapir's best-known writings has been made at the publisher's request so that a wide circle of readers can come to know and find pleasure in his thought and style. These essays, nine in number, representative of his contributions in three fields of learning, have been...
Ed. by David. G. Mandelbaum. — Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. — 618 p. Language The Nature of Language Language Sound Patterns in Language The Psychological Reality of Phonemes A Study in Phonetic Symbolism The Concept of Phonetic Law as Tested in Primitive Languages by Leonard Bloomfield Dialect Language and Environment Communication The Function of an...
Ed. by David. G. Mandelbaum. — Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. — 618 p. Language The Nature of Language Language Sound Patterns in Language The Psychological Reality of Phonemes A Study in Phonetic Symbolism The Concept of Phonetic Law as Tested in Primitive Languages by Leonard Bloomfield Dialect Language and Environment Communication The Function of an...
3 edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, December 30, 2002. — 336 p. Language: English The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures. Presents the essential terms and concepts introduced and developed by Dell Hymes and others and surveys the most important...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — XIV, 338. — ISBN: 0-19-510561-3; ISBN: 0-19-510562-1. "Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather, they link language to identity,...
Springer, 2017. — 740 p. — (Cultural Linguistics). — ISBN: 9811040559. This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition. The materials surveyed in its chapters demonstrate how cultural conceptualisations...
Inaugural Professorial Lecture. - Melbourne: Monash University, 2011. - 10 p. The author dwells on a theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. ‘Cultural linguistics’ refers to an emerging multidisciplinary field of research that explores the relationship between language, conceptualisation, and culture. However, in a broad sense, the term captures all...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. — 317 p. — ISBN10: 0812212509, ISBN13: 978-0812212501. Languages and Their Speakers provides an introduction both to languages themselves and to their social functions. Written especially for nonlinguistic majors, the book gives insight into the meaning, value, and function of language within a culture and into the ways language behavior...
Springer, 2018. — xxiii, 709 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-61778-7. Demographers, like cultural anthropologists and sociolinguists, are interested in the demography of populations that have unique language characteristics, such as indigenous populations, populations that are isolated or marginalized because of their culture, geographic location, or their small size, and societies that...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — x, 466 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–926748–4. Language and National Identity in Asia is a comprehensive introduction to the role of language in the construction and development of nations and national identities in Asia. Leading scholars from all over the world investigate the role languages have played and now play in the formation of the national and...
Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953. Chapter 7. — Walter de Gruyter, 2012. — pp. 143-160. The "great transformation" after 1928 highlighted rather than resolved the challenges posed by the democratization of national cultures. Nativization of Russian cadres was a remarkable success. A whole new generation of 'promoted ones' (vydvizhentsy) from the lower...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 318 p. — (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics). — ISBN10: 1137529067. — ISBN13: 978-1137529060. The collection demonstrates the ways in which established traditions and scholars have come together under the umbrella of linguistic ethnography to explore important questions about how language and communication are used in a range of settings...
John Benjamins, 2009. — vii, 519 p. — ISBN: 978-90-272-1864-3; ISBN: 978-90-272-8978-0. Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist...
7th Ed. — Routledge, 2018. — 466 p. Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology.
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 313 p. — ISBN: 074864315X. Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. James W. Underhill then widens the scope of metaphor theory by investigating not only...
Routledge, 2013. — xx, 182 p. — (Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia). — ISBN13: 978-0-203-37538-9. This book explores Hui (one of the Muslim minority groups in China) students’ lived experiences in an elementary school in central P. R. China from the perspectives of philosophical foundations of education and the sociology of education, the impact of their...
Ashgate, 2009. — ix, 142 p. — (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis). — ISBN: 978-0-7546-9768-8. Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. It reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature, but...
Ed. and with an intr. by John B. Carroll. Foreword by Stuart Chase. — New York; London: The Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. — 296 p. Foreword, by Stuart Chase Introduction, by John B. Carroll On the connection of ideas (1927) On psychology (date unknown) A central Mexican inscription combining Mexican and Maya day, signs...
Ed. and with an intr. by John B. Carroll. Foreword by Stuart Chase. — New York; London: The Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. — 296 p. Foreword, by Stuart Chase Introduction, by John B. Carroll On the connection of ideas (1927) On psychology (date unknown) A central Mexican inscription combining Mexican and Maya day, signs...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — x, 317 p. — ISBN: 0-19-508835-2; ISBN: 0-19-508836-0. This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key words," which reflect the core values of a...
Oxford University Press, 1998, — xxi, 300. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-510688-l. Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 313 p. — ISBN10: 0199393214, 13 978-0199393213. First published in 1976, Raymond Williams' highly acclaimed Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a collection of lively essays on words that are critical to understanding the modern world. In these essays, Williams, a renowned cultural critic, demonstrates how these key words take on...
Equinox, 2008. — xii, 162 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-84553-350-2. The major task of this book is a sociophonetic exploration of voice pitch characteristics of speakers across the cultures of Japan and America. This volume makes a cogent argument for the socio-cultural role of voice pitch in the expression of emotion and politeness and how culture and gender can intersect with each...
Routledge, 2017. — x, 231 p. — (Expanding Literacies in Education). — ISBN: 978-1-315-40086-0. Combining language research with digital, multimodal, and critical literacy, this book uniquely positions issues of transcultural spaces and cosmopolitan identities across an array of contexts. Studies of everyday diasporic practices across places, spaces, and people's stories provide...
В 2-х частях. — Учебно-методическое пособие для самостоятельной работы по дисциплинам лингвокультурологического цикла для бакалавров, аспирантов и магистрантов. — Бишкек: Кыргызско-Российский Славянский университет (КРСУ), 2014. — 165 p. — ISBN: 978-9967-19-090-0. Книга представляет собой сборник статей, посвященных реализации научно-методических установок инновационного...
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