Approaches to language and culture / edited by Svenja Völkel and Nico Nassenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Völkel, Svenja, editor.

Nassenstein, Nico, editor.

Series:

Anthropological Linguistics [AL]

Anthropological linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (572 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Part I: Outlining anthropological linguistics

1 Studying the relationship of language and culture: Scope and directions

Part II: Fields of research

2 Language acquisition and language socialization

3 Language endangerment and reclamation

4 Emerging languages and the creation of new communicative styles

5 Language ideologies and social identities

6 Conversational organization and genre

7 Gesture, sign languages and multimodality

8 On ritual speech: Epistemologies, history, and the social order

9 The unspoken

10 Social indexicality

11 Time: Sociocultural structuring beyond the spatialization paradigm

12 Emotional language: A brief history of recent research

Part III: Areal perspectives

13 Research on language and culture in Africa

14 Native North America: Notes towards a dialogical ethnopoetics

15 Perspectivism through language: A view from Amazonia

16 Recent research on language and culture in Australia and Oceania

17 Language and culture in Mainland Southeast Asia

18 Research on language and culture in Europe

Part IV: Outlook

19 The language-culture dimension: A space for challenges and opportunities

About the contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Völkel, Svenja Approaches to Language and Culture

ISBN:

3-11-072662-9