Language, culture, and society : an introduction to linguistic anthropology / Zdenek Salzmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salzmann, Zdeněk.

Contributor:

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

xi, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2004.

Summary:

The Third Edition of Language, Culture, and Society continues to address the full spectrum of fundamental topics in linguistic anthropology. Because anthropology stresses a holistic view, the integration of data from all sub-fields of anthropology and related fields is evident throughout the book. The new edition is enriched by deeper considerations of linguistic profiling and language prejudice, linguistic pluralism in the United States, intercultural communication, and endangered languages and language death. The final chapter is devoted to applied linguistic anthropology. Four new problems of linguistic reconstruction and 22 new "Questions for Discussion" further enhance the Third Edition's classroom appeal.

Contents:

1 Introducing Linguistic Anthropology 1

Anthropology, Linguistics, and Linguistic Anthropology 3

The Fieldwork Component 4

The Beginnings of Modern Linguistic Anthropology 11

Modern Myths Concerning Languages 12

2 Communication and Speech 19

Communication and Its Channels 20

Communication Among Social Insects 21

Communication Among Nonhuman Primates and Other Vertebrates 24

Design Features of Language 28

Language Acquisition 31

Language and the Brain 37

3 Language and Culture 42

The Stimulus of Sapir's Writings 43

The Whorf Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism 45

Language, Culture, and Worldview: A Relationship Reconsidered 48

Ethnoscience 59

4 The Structure of Language: Phonology 70

The Anatomy and Physiology of Speech 72

Articulation of Speech Sounds 74

Prosodic Features 79

From Phones to Phonemes 81

Phonemes of English 84

Comparative Phonology 84

Etics and Emics 86

Chapter Appendix Distinctive Features and Phonological Rules 89

5 Structure of Words and Sentences 94

Morphemes and Allomorphs 95

Morphological Processes 98

Morphophonemics 100

Syntax: The Sentence Patterns 101

Semantics 104

Transformational-generative Grammar 107

6 Language Origins 114

Early Theories 114

When Does a Communication System Become Language? 116

Milestones in Human Evolution 117

Blending and Duality of Patterning 122

Monogenesis Versus Polygenesis 124

Estimating the Age of Language: Linguistic Considerations 125

Estimating the Age of Language: View from Cultural Prehistory 127

Evidence from Anatomy 128

The Gestural Theory of Language Origin 131

7 Language Through Time 135

Language Changes: English a Thousand Years Ago 135

Internal and External Changes 137

How and Why Sound Changes Occur 140

Reconstructing Protolanguages 143

Reconstructing the Ancestral Homeland 146

Reconstructing a Protoculture 149

Dating the Past: Glottochronology 154

Time Perspective in Culture 158

How Languages Are Classified 159

8 Language Variation 167

Idiolects, Dialects, and Styles 168

Multilingualism, Diglossia, and Code-switching 171

Pidgins 177

From Pidgins to Creoles 178

African-American English: Its Use and Characteristics 181

How African-American English Came About 185

African-American English: Myths and Facts 187

Men-of-words 190

The World of Languages 191

Endangered Languages and Language Death 192

9 Language in Its Social Context 198

Taboo Words, Politeness, and Deference 199

Forms of Address and Greeting 202

Linguistic Etiquette of the Javanese People 207

Speech and Gender 208

Sexual Bias in Language 212

Linguistic Variation in a Plural Society 213

Sociolinguistic Change 216

10 Ethnography of Communication 225

Speech Community and Related Concepts 226

Units of Speech Behavior 227

Components of Communication: Participants and Setting 229

Components of Communication: Purpose, Channels, Codes, and Message Content and Form 230

Components of Communication: Genres, Key, Rules of Interaction, and Norms of Interpretation 232

Subanun Drinking Talk 236

Attitudes Toward the Use of Speech 237

Language Ideology 240

Recent Trends in the Ethnography of Speaking 241

11 Nonverbal Communication and Writing 246

Paralinguistics, Kinesics, and Proxemics 247

Whistle and Drum "Languages" 250

Sign Languages 253

The Origins of Writing 257

Types of Writing Systems 259

Writing and Printing 265

Decipherment 266

Ethnography of Writing 266

12 Oral Folklore and Spoken Art 271

Collecting and Classifying Traditional Narratives 272

Oral Folklore: The Functional Approach 275

In Search of Structure 276

Oral Folklore as Performance 281

Studies of Discourse 284

Creative Use of Language 286

13 Linguistic Anthropology in the Contemporary World 292

Intercultural Communication 293

Applications in Legal Proceedings 296

Language Planning 300

Language Maintenance and Reinforcement 302

Ethical Questions and Standards of Conduct 305

Languages Mentioned in the Text and Their Locations (map) 339.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-336) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

ISBN:

0813340012

0813340020

OCLC:

51878577