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Anthropological Linguistics de William Foley

Anthropological Linguistics

Autor William Foley, Foley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iul 1997
It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalised forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics normally treated under the rubric of language and culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631151227
ISBN-10: 0631151222
Pagini: 516
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

advanced students and specialists in language and culture, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural anthropology

Notă biografică

William A. Foley is Professor of Lingusitics at the University of Sydney. He is author of Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar (with R. van Valin) and The Papuan Languages fo New Guinea, and editor of The Role of Theory in Language Description.

Cuprins

Preface.

Part I: Introduction.

1. Introduction.

Part II: The Evolution of Language.

2. The Evolution of Language.

Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind.

3. Mind, Universals and the Sensible World.

4. Structuralism.

5. Cognitive Anthropology.

6. Kinship.

7. Color.

Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind.

8. On Relativist Understanding.

9. Models and Metaphors.

10. Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition.

11. Space.

12. Classifiers.

Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking.

13. Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples.

14. Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood.

15. Language and Gender.

16. Language and Social Position.

17. Language and Socialisation.

18. Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art.

Part VI: Culture and Language Change.

19. Contact Induced Language Change.

20. Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering.

21. Literacy.

References.

Index.

Descriere

Anthropological linguistics is concerned with the place of language in its social and cultural context. This book provides a review of research questions which span the disciplines of linguinitics and anthropology, yet presents a biologically based view of this cross-disciplinary field.