Anthropological Linguistics, (5 Volume Set)

Viewing language as a dynamic semiotic system that shapes and is shaped by cultural, social, and cognitive factors alike, the materials gathered in this new Major Work collection from Routledge explore how people in communities worldwide think about language, talk about language, use language, and change language. The collected works illustrate the ways in which language practices - spoken, written, and signed - are resources that participants use for creating social worlds and accomplishing a wide range of activities within those worlds. Furthermore, they demonstrate how analysts use linguistic and cultural practices, and the ideologies that shape them, to provide insights into the complexities of everyday, as well as less commonly occurring, social encounters.

Theoretical essays are complemented with readings that illustrate, integrate, and often advance these frameworks. Focus is on work that emphasizes the importance of cultural contexts in analysing the linguistic practices in which they are embedded; the role talk-in-interaction in establishing, maintaining, or transforming social realities; and the linguistic and communicative resources and strategies that speakers use in conforming others to their point of view. Selections range from investigations, for example, of how speakers create and assert identities in particular kinds of face-to-face interactions; how political institutions, including language academies and experts, attempt to regiment the language practices of particular communities, and how such attempts are resisted; and how various technologies and media, including literacy, radio, television, cellular telephones, and computers, are transforming communicative landscapes at local, national, transnational, and global levels.

Primarily drawing on the work of linguistic anthropologists, the collection will be of interest to those working in Social and Cultural Anthropology, the Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics, Communications, Discourse Analysis, Language and Education, Rhetoric, and other fields in which scholars and students explore how language use creates and shapes social worlds.

Volume I : Thinking About Language

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Learning How to Ask : Native Metacommunicative Competence and The Incompetence of Fieldworkers
Chapter 3 : Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Chapter 4 : Hanunóo Color Categories Southwestern, Journal of Anthropology
Chapter 5 : Meaning without Intention : Lessons from Divination
Chapter 6 : Language as Culture in U.S : Anthropology : Three Paradigms, Current Anthropology
Chapter 7 : Diglossia : Separate and Unequal
Chapter 8 : Diglossia, Word
Chapter 9 : Between Speech and Silence : The Problematics of Research on Language and Gender
Chapter 10 : Interethnic Communication.
Chapter 11 : Discourse Genres in a Theory of Practice
Chapter 12 : Bilingualism, Language, Culture, and Society
Chapter 13 : The Ethnography of Speaking, Anthropology and Human Behavior

Volume II : Thinking About Language

Chapter 14 : When Talk isn’t Cheap : Language and Political Economy, American Ethnologist
Chapter 15 : Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation, Regimes of Language : Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
Chapter 16 : Closing Statement : Linguistics and Poetics, Style in Language
Chapter 17 : The Things We Do with Words : Ilongot Speech Acts and Speech Act Theory in Philosophy, Language in Society
Chapter 18 : The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society, The Unconscious : A Symposium
Chapter 19 : The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language, Language, Thought, and Reality : Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Chapter 20 : Language
Chapter 21 : Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Chapter 22 : Language Ideology as a Field of Inquiry, Language Ideologies : Practice and Theory

Volume III : Talking About Language

Chapter 23 : Joking Imitations of Anglo-Americans : Interpretive Functions, Portraits of "The Whiteman" : Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among The Western Apache
Chapter 24 : Let your words be few : Speaking and Silence in Quaker Ideology., Let Your Words Be Few : Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers
Chapter 25 : Any man who keeps more’n one hound’ll lie to you’ : A Contextual Study of Expressive Lying, Story, Performance, and Event : Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative
Chapter 26 : Everyone Has to Lie in Tzeltal, Talking to Adults : The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition
Chapter 27 : Accent Matters : Material Consequences of Sounding Local in NorThern ItalyLanguage & Communication
Chapter 28 : Defining The Speech Community to Include its Working Margins., Sociolinguistic Variation in Speech Communities
Chapter 29 : Reclaiming Sacred Sparks : Linguistic Syncretism and Gendered Language Shift among Hasidic Jews in New York, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Chapter 30 : Wept Thoughts : The Voicing of Kaluli Memories, Oral Tradition
Chapter 31 : Ideologies of Language : Some Reflections on Language and U.S : Law, American Anthropologist
Chapter 32 : Expert Rhetorics in Advocacy for Endangered Languages : Who is Listening, and What do They Hear?, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Chapter 33 : What Does Language Remember? : Indexical Inversion and The Naturalized History of Japanese Women
Chapter 34 : Language Identity of The Colombian Vaupés Indians, Explorations in The Ethnography of Speaking
Chapter 35 : Accent, Standard Language Ideology, and The Discriminatory Pretext in The Courts
Chapter 36 : Those Naughty Teenage Girls : Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments
Chapter 37 : Signifying and Marking : Two Afro-American Speech Acts, Directions in Sociolinguistics : The Ethnography of Communication
Chapter 38 : Disappearing, Inc. Glimpsing The Sublime in The Politics of Access to Endangered Languages
Chapter 39 : Theories and Politics in African American English
Chapter 40 : The ‘Real’ Haitian Creole : Ideology, Metalinguistics, and Orthographic Choice
Chapter 41 : Monoglot ‘Standard’ in America : Standardization and Metaphors of Linguistic Hegemony

Volume IV : Using Language

Chapter 42 : Writing Desire in Nepali Love Letters
Chapter 43 : Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters
Chapter 44 : Creating Social Identities through Doctrina Narratives
Chapter 45 : To Give Up on Words : Silence in Western Apache Culture, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
Chapter 46 : Performing Gender Identity : Young Men’s Talk and The Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity
Chapter 47 : Language in Context and Language as Context : Samoan Respect Vocabulary, Rethinking Context : Language as an Interactive Phenomenon
Chapter 48 : Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves : Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High, Gender Articulated
Chapter 49 : Temporalities of Community : Ancestral Language, Pilgrimage, and Diasporic Belonging in Mauritius
Chapter 50 : A Competent Speaker Who Can’t Speak : The Social Life of Aphasia
Chapter 51 : Intertextual Sexuality : Parodies of Class, Identity, and Desire in Liminal Delhi
Chapter 52 : What No Bedtime Story Means : Narrative Skills at Home and School
Chapter 53 : Language, Race, and White Public Space
Chapter 54 : Strategies of Status Manipulation in The Wolof Greeting, Explorations in The Ethnography of Speaking
Chapter 55 : ‘Muy Macha’ : Gender and Ideology in Gang-Girls’ Discourse about Makeup
Chapter 56 : Indexing Gender, Rethinking Context : Language as an Interactive Phenomenon
Chapter 57 : Language Acquisition and Socialization : Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications, Culture Theory : Essays on Mind, Self, and Emotion
Chapter 58 : Multilingual Play : Children’s Code-switching, Role Play, and Agency in Dominica, West Indies
Chapter 59 : Intimate Hierarchies and Qur'anic Saliva (Tëfli) : Textuality in a Senegalese Ethnomedical Encounter.
Chapter 60 : The Political Topography of Spanish and English : The View from a New York Puerto Rican Neighborhood

Volume V : Changing Language

Chapter 61 : Codeswitching and Consciousness in The European Periphery
Chapter 62 : Say it like you see it’ : Radio Broadcasting and The Mass Mediation of Creole Nationhood in St. Lucia, Identities : Global Studies in Culture and Power
Chapter 63 : Berber Language Ideologies, Maintenance, and Contraction : Gendered Variation in The Indigenous Margins of Morocco
Chapter 64 : Enquoting Voices, Accomplishing Talk : Uses of be like in Instant Messaging
Chapter 65 : American Sign Language in Virtual Space : Interactions between Deaf Users of Computer-mediated Video Communication and The Impact of Technology on Language Practices
Chapter 66 : Arizona Tewa Kiva Speech as a Manifestation of a Dominant Language Ideology, Language Ideologies : Practice and Theory
Chapter 67 : Anger, Gender, Language Shift, and The Politics of Revelation in a Papua New Guinean Village, Language Ideologies : Practice and Theory
Chapter 68 : Linguistic Syncretism and Language Ideologies : Transforming Sociolinguistic Hierarchy on Rapa Nui
Chapter 69 : Participant Structures and Communicative Competence : Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom, Georgetown University Round Table On Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1970 : Bilingualism and Language Contact
Chapter 70 : Language Crossing and The Problematisation of Ethnicity and Socialization
Chapter 71 : Marking Time : The Dichotomizing Discourse of Multiple Temporalities
Chapter 72 : Encountering Languages and Languages of Encounter in North American Ethnohistory
Chapter 73 : The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and The Mediation of Communities
Chapter 74 : The Limits of Legitimacy : Language Ideology and Shift in Contemporary Senegal
Chapter 75 : Outlaw Language : Creating Alternative Public Spheres in Basque Free Radio
Chapter 76 : The Linguistic Construction of The Tóngzhì Community
Chapter 77 : Between Friends : Gender, Peer Group Structure and Bilingualism in Urban Catalonia