Nurturing language : anthropological linguistics in an African context / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan, author.

Series:

Anthropological Linguistics [AL]

Anthropological Linguistics [AL] ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological linguistics.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages)

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of figures

List of pictures

List of maps

List of tables

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive anthropology

3 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive linguistics

4 Spatial orientation

5 Language and habitual thought

6 Onomastics

7 The ethnography of communication

8 The contribution of interactional sociolinguistics

9 Emotions and the sounds of silence in a cross-cultural perspective

10 Cultural conceptions of face

11 Conversation analysis

12 Non-verbal communication

Appendices

Appendix I: Kinship terminology in Tima (Schneider-Blum and Veit 2022)

Appendix II: Colour chart as used in Tornay (1978)

Appendix III: Politeness strategies (Brown and Levinson 1987)

Appendix IV: Transcriptional symbols in conversation analysis

References

Subject index

Language index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-072663-7