Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Series

24 primary works • 24 total works
Linguistic anthropologists seek to understand the social and cultural character of language: they investigate socioculturally grounded 'meanings' and 'functions' of linguistic forms, and the variations in language usage across cultures. Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language publishes monographs and edited collections that make …
Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power and Identity
Literacy and Literacies is a new and engaging acco…
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Language and Emotion
3.80
· 5 Ratings · published 2009 · 8 editions
Language is a means we use to communicate feelings…
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Language Contact in a Plantation Environment: A Sociolinguistic History of Fiji
Jeff Siegel's fascinating book provides a sociolin…
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Language and Social Relations
4.59
· 32 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2006 · 10 editions
Language is closely linked to our social relations…
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Language, Culture, and Society: Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
Language, our primary tool of thought and percepti…
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Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for the…
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Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality
This study asserts that conscious development of n…
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Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity
4.00
· 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 8 editions
Developing a new synthesis of literacy studies, th…
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Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture
African American language is central to the teachi…
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Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia
Until recently, Indonesian, the national language …
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Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
The rapid spread of Indonesian as the national lan…
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Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village
Don Kulick's book is an anthropological study of l…
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Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
John Lucy uses original, empirical data to examine…
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Rethinking Linguistic Relativity
4.10
· 21 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1996 · 3 editions
Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, t…
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Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transforma…
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Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse
3.83
· 6 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1993 · 7 editions
Twelve articles by leading linguists and linguisti…
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Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death
Over the past 500 years, half the known languages …
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Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir-…
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Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon
The past decade has seen a fundamental rethinking …
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Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
First published in 1974, this collection of classi…
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Culture and Language Development: Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village
As children are learning to become competent membe…
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Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective
The aim of this innovative volume is to analyze bo…
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Language Socialization across Cultures
Children's aquisition of language and their acquis…
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Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research
Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and t…
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