Alessandro Duranti 
A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology [PDF ebook] 

A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture.

* Provides a definitive overview of the field of linguistic anthropology, comprised of original contributions by leading scholars in the field

* Summarizes past and contemporary research across the field and is intended to spur students and scholars to pursue new paths in the coming decades

* Includes a comprehensive bibliography of over 2000 entries designed as a resource for anyone seeking a guide to the literature of linguistic anthropology

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Synopsis of Contents.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Notes on Contributors.

Part I: Speech Communities, Contact, and Variation.

1. Speech Community. (Marcyliena Morgan).

2. Registers of Language. (Asif Agha).

3. Language Contact And Contact Languages. (Paul B.
Garrett).

4. Codeswitching (Kathryn A. Woolard).

5. Diversity, Hierarchy and Modernity in Pacific Island
Communities. (Niko Besnier).

6. The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds
Through North American Indian Languages. (Marianne Mithun).

7. Variation In Sign Languages. (Barbara Lemaster and Leila
Monaghan).

Part II: The Performing of Language.

8. Conversation as a Cultural Activity. (Elizabeth Keating and
Maria Egbert).

9. Gesture. (John B. Haviland).

10. Participation. (Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness
Goodwin).

11. Literacy Practices Across Learning Contexts. (Patricia
Baquedano-López). 12. Narrative Lessons.Elinor Ochs).

13. Poetry. (Giorgio Banti and Francesco Giannattasio).

14. Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to the
Language of Song. (Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello, and
David Samuels).

Part III: Achieving Subjectivities and Intersubjectivities
Through Language.

15. Language Socialization. (Don Kulick and Bambi B.
Schieffelin).

16. Language And Identity. (Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall).

17. Misunderstanding. (Benjamin Bailey).

18. Language And Madness. (James M. Wilce).

19. Language And Religion. (Webb Keane).

Part IV: The Power In Language.

20. Agency In Language. (Alessandro Duranti).

21. Language and Social Inequality. (Susan U. Philips).

22. Language Ideologies (Paul V. Kroskrity).

General Bibliography.

Index.

O autorze

Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture at UCLA. His books include From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (1994), Linguistic Anthropology (1997), Key Terms in Language and Culture (2001), and Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (editor, 2001). In 1999 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a former president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology and former editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. In 2001 Duranti received the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.