Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology – Ebook PDF Version

Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology – Ebook PDF Version – Digital Instant Dowload.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780813350608
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813350608
• Author: James Stanlaw (Author), Nobuko Adachi (Author), Zdenek Salzmann (Author)

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This seventh edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer pressing and exciting challenges of the 21st century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, and linguistic diasporas. Chapters on gender, race, and class also examine how language helps create – and is created by – identity. New to this edition are enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and the inclusion of a glossary. There is also an expanded discussion of communication online and of social media outlets and how that universe is changing how we interact. The discussion on race and ethnicity has also been expanded to include Latin- and Asian-American English vernacular.

Table of contents:

Preface

1. Introducing Linguistic Anthropology

2. Methods of Linguistic Anthropology

3. The “Nuts and Bolts� of Linguistic Anthropology I: Language Is Sound

4. The “Nuts and Bolts� of Linguistic Anthropology II: Structure of Words and Sentences

5. Communicating Nonverbally

6. The Development and Evolution of Language: Language Birth, Language Growth, and Language Death

7. Acquiring and Using Language(s): Life with First Languages, Second Languages, and More

8. Language Through Time

9. Languages in Variation and Languages in Contact

10. The Ethnography of Communication

11. Culture as Cognition, Culture as Categorization: Meaning and Language in the Conceptual World

12. Language, Culture, and Thought

13. Language, Identity, and Ideology I: Variations in Gender

14. Language, Identity, and Ideology II: Variations in Class, “Race,� Ethnicity, and Nationality

15. The Linguistic Anthropology of a Globalized and Digitalized World