Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction - Couverture rigide

Foley Jr., William A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0631151214 ISBN 13 : 9780631151210

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

This is a textbook for courses in language and culture for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalized forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics normally treated under the rubric of language and culture. An important orientating strand in the book is the tension between innatist or universalist versus relativist approaches to anthropological linguistic phenomena: various topics like kinship, color, classifiers or the effects of literacy are discussed from these contrasting viewpoints to provide a richer understanding of their implications. The book is organized so that in a modular way individual instructors may use or omit sections to fit into their overall teaching design.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This is the first comprehensive textbook in anthropological linguistics to be published for very many years. It provides a remarkably complete and authoritative review of research questions which span the disciplines of linguinitics and anthropology, yet presents a coherent, unified, biologically based view of this cross–disciplinary field.

Anthropological linguistics is concerned with the place of language in its social and cultural context, with understanding the role of language in forging and sustaining cultural practices and social structures. While anthropological concept of culture, its subject matter ranges cry widely: from cognitive or psychologically oriented topics such as linguistic, relativity or universals of color terminology, to sociocultural issues such as language and gender, politeness, socialization, language contact, and linguistic engineering. All these topics and many more are addressed here, supported by examples and illustrations from an array of languages, especially those of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Students will find in this book a careful evaluation of current issues and research questions, giving them a basic, yet well rounded understanding of their importance in a wider field; and they will find in each chapter suggestions for further readings, allowing them to pursue topics of particular interest to them.

Revue de presse

"Foley′s book illustrates quite convincingly that ′Linguistics without anthropology is sterile, anthropology without linguistics is blind′(Hockett 1973: 675)" Gunter Senft, Max–Planck–Institute for Psycholinguistics

"I applaud Foley for having overcome one of the main constraints of structuralist – inspired approaches to analysis." Peter Muhlhausler, University of Adelaide

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631151214
• ISBN 13: 9780631151210
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 520
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible