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Anthropological Linguistics: Theories and Practices (Critical Concepts in Language Studies)
Hardcover. Routledge 2011-03-12.
ISBN 9780415551786
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Viewing language as a dynamic semiotic system that shapes and is shaped by cultural, social and cognitive factors alike, the articles in this new "Major Work from Routledge" explore how people in communities worldwide think about language, talk about language, use language, and change language. The articles illustrate the ways in which language practices - spoken, written, and signed - are resources that participants use for creating social worlds and accomplishing a wide range of activities within those worlds. Furthermore, they demonstrate how analysts use linguistic and cultural practices, and the ideologies that shape them, to provide insights into the complexities of everyday, as well as less commonly occurring, social encounters. Theoretical essays are complemented with readings that illustrate, integrate and often advance these theoretical frameworks. Focus is on work that emphasizes the importance of cultural contexts in analyzing the linguistic practices in which they are embedded; the role talk-in-interaction in establishing, maintaining, or transforming social realities; and, the linguistic and communicative resources and strategies that speakers use in conforming others to their point of view. Selections range from investigations, for example, of how speakers create and assert identities in particular kinds of face-to-face interactions; how political institutions, including language academies and experts, attempt to regiment the language practices of particular communities, and how such attempts are resisted; and, how various technologies and media, including literacy, radio, television, cellular telephones, and computers, are transforming communicative landscapes at local, national, transnational, and global levels. The editors, experts in the field, have selected essays by leading scholars that are theoretically foundational as well as innovative. They draw on a broad range of ethnographic and linguistic materials to illustrate their arguments in a compelling manner, highlighting the major research directions that have shaped the discipline and pointing to exciting new directions. Primarily drawing from the work of linguistic anthropologists, the collection will be of interest to those working in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics, Communications, Discourse Analysis, Language and Education, Rhetoric, and other fields in which scholars and students explore how language use creates and shapes social worlds
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