Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology / Edition 6

by Zdenek Salzmann, James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi

Overview

This introduction to linguistic anthropology includes basic concepts and methods, cognition, sociolinguistics, and expanded coverage of gender, race, and class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813349541
Publisher:	Avalon Publishing
Publication date:	07/29/2014
Edition description:	Sixth Edition, Sixth Edition
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Zdenek Salzmann, a native of Prague, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and adjunct professor at Northern Arizona University. A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he is the author, with his wife, Joy, of Native Americans of the Southwest.

James Stanlaw is professor of anthropology at Illinois State University. His areas of interest include linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology, language and culture contact, and Japan and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact.

Nobuko Adachi is associate professor of anthropology at Illinois State University. Her interests include language and transnationalism, ethnohistory, and ethnic studies. She is the author of Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents, and Uncertain Futures.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing Linguistic Anthropology
Chapter 2. Methods of Linguistic Anthropology
Chapter 3. “Nuts and Bolts” Linguistic Anthropology I: Language is Sound
Chapter 4. “Nuts and Bolts” Linguistic Anthropology II: Structure of Words and Sentences
Chapter 5. Communicating Nonverbally
Chapter 6. The Development and Evolution of Language: Language Birth, Language Growth, and Language Death
Chapter 7. Acquiring Language(s): Life with First Languages, Second Languages, and More
Chapter 8. Language through Time
Chapter 9. Languages in Variation and Languages in Contact
Chapter 10. Ethnography of Communication
Chapter 11. Culture as Cognition, Culture as Categorization: Meaning and Language in the Conceptual World
Chapter 12. Language, Culture, and Thought
Chapter 13. Language, Identity, and Ideology I: Variations in Gender
Chapter 14. Language, Identity, and Ideology II: Variations in Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality
Chapter 15. Linguistic Anthropology in the Globalized World

Glossary
Bibliography
Languages Mentioned in the Text and Their Locations (map)
Index

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Sixth Edition:

"This text fits well into introductory courses in anthropology and communication studies. While providing a thorough review of materials that reflect the major contributions to the field, the authors are keenly aware of the roll that language plays in a globalizing world."
—Pamela R. Frese, The College of Wooster

"Language, Culture, and Society is a welcoming text regardless of the reader’s background in linguistic anthropology. Material that is significant in scope and depth is masterfully rendered in digestible yet substantive elements. There is an art to maintaining conceptual rigor while deftly delivering profound ideas in readily grasped writing—an art that Salzmann, Stanlaw, and Adachi possess in great amounts."
—William L. Alexander, University of North Carolina Wilmington

“Language, Culture, and Society contains fascinating renderings of words and sounds from across the globe . . . while mentioning no fewer than 146 languages throughout. However, non-specialists will also find the text interesting; copious examples and sidebars portray the field as an ideal multidisciplinary bridge. Communication scholars, in particular, will find the text enlarges their conception of their own work.” —Communication Research Trends

Praise for Previous Editions:

"Language, Culture, and Society covers the three main areas of linguistics important to anthropologists: language and culture studies, basic analysis of linguistic structure, and the relationship of linguists’ work to the other subfields of anthropology. It is easily readable, and of a length suitable for a one-semester introductory course. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking to learn how the study of language informs us about human characteristics, history, and society."
—Kelly Lynne Maynard, University of Missouri

"A major introduction and overview to the (reborn) field of linguistic anthropology. The book is systematic and very accessible. It covers most of what is relevant in the field, for which it certainly is to be highly recommended."
—Applied Linguistics

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