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The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology / edited by N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, and Jack Sidnell

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Linguistic anthropology
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
xiv, 750 pages ; 26 cm.
Additional Creators
Enfield, N. J., 1966-, Kockelman, Paul, and Sidnell, Jack

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Directions in the anthropology of Language / Jack Sidnell -- pt. I System and function -- 2.Basics of a language / R. M. W. Dixon -- 3.The item/system problem / N.J. Enfield -- 4.Language and the manual modality: The communicative resilience of the human species / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- 5.Linguistic diversity and universals / Balthasar Bickel -- 6.Denotation and the pragmatics of language / Michael Silverstein -- 7.Language function / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen -- pt. II Process and formation -- 8.Language acquisition and language socialization / Suzanne Gaskins -- 9.Language, society, and history: Towards a unified approach? / Magnus Pharao Hansen -- 10.Language emergence: Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language / Irit Meir -- 11.Endangered languages / Keren Rice -- 12.Language evolution / Stephen C. Levinson -- 13.Causal dynamics of language / N.J. Enfield -- pt. III Interaction and intersubjectivity -- 14.Intentionality and language / Robert B. Brandom -- 15.The architecture of intersubjectivity revisited / Jack Sidnell -- 16.Language and human sociality / Alan Rumsey -- 17.The ontology of action, in interaction / N.J. Enfield -- 18.Conversation across cultures / Simeon Floyd -- pt. IV Community and social life -- 19.Poetics and performativity / Michael Lempert -- 20.Ritual language / David Tavarez -- 21.Oratory, rhetoric, politics / Bernard Bate -- 22.Language and media / Paul Manning -- 23.The speech community and beyond: Language and the nature of the social aggregate / Shaylih Muehlmann -- pt. V Interdisciplinary perspectives -- 24.Linguistic anthropology and critical theory / Paul Kockelman -- 25.Linguistic anthropology and sociocultural anthropology / Rupert Stasch -- 26.Sociolinguistics: Making quantification meaningful / Penelope Eckert -- 27.Language and archaeology: State of the art / Roger M. Blench -- 28.Language and biology: The multiple interactions between genetics and language / Dan Dediu -- 29.Linguistic anthropology in the age of language automata / Paul Kockelman.
Summary
"The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds"--
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9781107030077 (hardback)
1107030072 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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