Research Catalog

Title

Language, culture, and society : an introduction to linguistic anthropology / Zdenek Salzmann.

Author

Salzmann, Zdeněk.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2004.

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Description

xi, 356 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

In this revised text on language, culture and society, two of the original chapters have been subdivided, additional examples have been included, and the discussions of some of the more abstract topics have been edited.

Subject

Anthropological linguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-336) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introducing linguistic anthropology -- Anthropology, linguistics, and linguistic anthropology -- The fieldwork component -- The beginnings of modern linguistic anthropology -- Modern myths concerning languages -- Summary and conclusions -- Communication and speech -- Communication and its channels -- Communication among social insects -- Communication among nonhuman primates and other vertebrates -- Design features of language -- Language acquisition -- Language and the brain -- Language and culture -- The stimulus of Sapir's writings -- The Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism
• Language, culture, and worldview: a relationship reconsidered -- Ethnoscience -- The structure of language: phonology -- The anatomy and physiology of speech -- Articulation of speech sounds -- Prosodic features -- From phones to phonemes -- Phonemes of English -- Comparative phonology -- Etics and emics -- Structure of words and sentences -- Morphemes and allomorphs -- Morphological processes -- Morphophonemics -- Syntax: the sentence patterns -- Semantics -- Transformational-generative grammar -- Language origins -- Early theories -- When does a communication system become language? -- Milestones in human evolution -- Blending and duality of patterning
• Monogenesis versus polygenesis -- Estimating the age of language: linguistic considerations -- Estimating the age of language: view from cultural prehistory -- Evidence from anatomy -- The Gestural theory of language origin -- Language through time -- Language changes: English a thousand years ago -- Internal and external changes -- How and why sound changes occur -- Reconstructing protolanguages -- Reconstructing the ancestral homeland -- Reconstructing a protoculture -- Dating the past: glottochronology -- Time perspective in culture -- How languages are classified -- Language variation -- Idiolects, dialects, and styles -- Multilingualism, diglossia, and code-switching -- Pidgins -- From pidgins to creoles -- African-American English: its use and characteristics
• How African-American English came about -- African-American English: myths and facts -- Men-of-words -- The world of languages -- [[[Endangered Languages and Language Death]]] -- Language in its social context -- Taboo words, politeness, and deference -- Forms of address and greeting -- Linguistic etiquette of the Javanese people -- Speech and gender -- Sexual bias in language -- Linguistic variation in a plural society -- Sociolinguistic change -- Ethnography of communication -- Speech community and related concepts -- Units of speech behavior -- Components of communication: participants and setting -- Components of communication: purpose, channels, codes, and message content and form -- Components of communication: genres, key, rules of interaction, and norms of interpretation -- Subanun drinking talk
• Attitudes toward the use of speech -- Recent trends in the ethnography of speaking -- Nonverbal communication and writing -- Paralinguistics, kinesics, and proxemics -- Whistle and drum "languages" -- Sign languages -- The origins of writing -- Types of writing systems -- Writing and printing -- Decipherment -- Ethnography of writing -- Oral folklore and spoken art -- Collecting and classifying traditional narratives -- Oral folklore: the functional approach -- In search of structure -- Oral folklore as performance -- Studies of discourse -- Creative use of language -- Linguistic anthropology in the contemporary world -- [[[Inter]]]cultural communication -- Applications in legal proceedings -- Language planning -- Language maintenance and reinforcement -- Ethical questions and standards of conduct.

ISBN

• 0813340012 (hard.)
• 0813340020 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003006173

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library