Living Language : An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahearn, Laura M.

Series:

Primers in Anthropology Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.

Contents:

Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Language: Some Basic Questions

1: The Socially Charged Life of Language

So, What Do You Need to Know in Order to "Know" a Language?

Examples of Linguistic Diversity

Examples of Diversity in Research Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

Keith Basso

Marjorie Harness Goodwin

Bonnie Urciuoli

Alessandro Duranti

Kathryn A. Woolard

James M. Wilce

Key Terms in Linguistic Anthropology

Multifunctionality

Language ideologies

Practice

Indexicality

The Inseparability of Language, Culture, and Social Relations

2: Gestures, Sign Languages, and Multimodality

Bakhtin's Double-Voiced Discourse

Goffman's Participation Framework and Production Format

Speech and the Analysis of Conversation

Gestures and Other Forms of Embodied Communication

Sign Languages

Poetry, Whistled Languages, Song, and Illustrations

3: The Research Process in Linguistic Anthropology

What Kinds of Research Questions Do Linguistic Anthropologists Formulate?

What Kinds of Data Do Linguistic Anthropologists Collect, and with What Methods?

Participant observation

Interviews

Surveys and questionnaires

Naturally occurring conversations

Experimental methods

Matched guise tests

Written texts

How Do Linguistic Anthropologists Analyze Their Data?

What Sorts of Ethical Issues Do Linguistic Anthropologists Face?

4: Language Acquisition and Socialization

Language Acquisition and the Socialization Process

Gaps in the "Language Gap" Approach

Language Acquisition in Bilingual or Multilingual Contexts

Language Socialization throughout the Lifespan

Conclusion

5: Language, Thought, and Culture

A Hundred Years of Linguistic Relativity.

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Investigating the Effects of Language on Thought

Language-in-General

Linguistic Structures

Color

Space

Shape vs. material composition

Language Use

Part II: Communities of Speakers, Hearers, Readers, and Writers

6: Communities of Language Users

Defining "Speech Community

Size and location of the community

What is shared by the members of a speech community?

The type of interactions that speech community members have

Recent Research Drawing on the Concept of Speech Community

Alternatives to the Concept of Speech Community

Speech areas

Speech networks

Communities of practice

7: Multilingualism and Globalization

Code-Switching, Code-Mixing, and Diglossia

Diglossia

Code-switching

Code-mixing

Heteroglossia" and "Transidiomatic Practice

8: Literacy Practices

Literacy Events vs. Literacy Practices

Autonomous" vs. "Ideological" Approaches to Studying Literacy

Some Examples of Situated Literacy Research

Preschool literacy practices in the southeastern United States

Love-letter writing in Nepal

Instant messaging: more like speech or writing?

The Not-So-New "New Literacy Studies" and Its Critics

9: Performance, Performativity, and the Constitution of Communities

(1) Performance Defined in Opposition to Competence

(2) Performativity

(3) Performance as a Display of Verbal Artistry

Ethnographies of Performance and Performativity

Part III: Language, Power, and Social Differentiation

10: Language and Gender

What Is Gender, and How Does It Relate to Language?

Do Men and Women Speak Alike or Differently?

Do Women and Men of All Ages and All Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Backgrounds Share the Same Gendered Differences in Their Language Use?

Some Thoughts on Myths and Realities.

11: Language, Race, and Ethnicity

Defining Race and Ethnicity

The Rule-Governed Nature of African American English

Invariant or habitual "be

Copula deletion

Double negatives

The reduction of final consonants

Pronouncing the word "ask" as "aks

The Ebonics Controversy

Racist Language and Racism in Language

Language and Racial/Ethnic Identities

12: Language Death and Revitalization

Enumerating the Crisis: How Many Dying Languages Are There?

What Dies When a Language Dies?

Why Do Languages Die?

Can Endangered Languages Be Saved?

13: Conclusion: Language, Power, and Agency

What Is Power?

Hegemony

Foucault's power relations and discourse

Practice theory and power

Agency

The Grammatical Encoding of Agency

Talk About Agency: Meta-Agentive Discourse

Power and Agency in/through/by/of Language

Notes

References

Index

End User License Agreement.

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Other Format:

Print version: Ahearn, Laura M. Living Language

ISBN:

9781119060666

OCLC:

960760046