Language, Culture, and Communication

Explore the connections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages, Language, Culture and Communication, Seventh Edition, explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. The text examines the multifaceted meanings and uses of language. It also emphasizes the ways in which language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions. Nancy Bonvillain focuses on analyzing communicative interactions, revealing how social relations are produced and reproduced through speech. The text also highlights the analysis of language ideologies, that is, the beliefs that people have about language structure itself, about language usage, and about appropriate norms for producing and evaluating speech. This 7th edition contains updated information throughout as well as several new sections. Examples of language practices in African societies have also been added. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: * Recognize reputation and pattern in human speech.
* Understand the formation and structure of language. * Have a strong understanding of the use of rhetoric in communication. Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text MySearchLab: ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205953565 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205953561

List of contents

In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Full Table of Contents
 

 
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Form of the Message
Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Meaning
Chapter 4: Contextual Components: Outline of an Ethnography of Communication
Chapter 5: Communicative Interactions
Chapter 6: Digital Communications and Signed Languages
Chapter 7: Learning Language
Chapter 8: The Acquisition of Communicate Competence
Chapter 9: Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation: Class and Race
Chapter 10: Language and Gender
Chapter 11: Multilingual Nations
Chapter 12: Bilingual Communities
Chapter 13: Language and Institutional Encounters
 
 



 
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Speech Communities
 
Chapter 2: The Form of the Message
Phonology: The Sounds of Language
Morphology: The Structure of Words
Syntax: The Structure of Sentences
Semantics: The Analysis of Meaning
Manual Language
Nonverbal Communication
 
Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Meaning
Foundations of Linguistic Anthropology
Lexical and Cultural Categories
Cultural Presupposition
Extended and Transferred Meaning
 
Chapter 4: Contextual Components: Outline of an Ethnography of Communication
Ethnography of Communication
Settings
Participants
Topics and Goals
Speech Acts
Routines
Narratives

Chapter 5: Communicative Interactions
Structural Properties of Conversation
Conversational Postulates
Directives
Directives and Responses in Context
Politeness

Chapter 6: Digital Communications and Signed Languages
Telephone Conversations
Online Communication
Signed Languages and Communicative Practices
 
Chapter 7: Learning Language
Acquisition of Language
Complex Grammars
Comparative Evidence
Some Universal Sequences
Instructional Strategies
Strategies in Other Societies

Chapter 8: The Acquisition of Communicate Competence
Acquiring Communicative Styles
Learning Status and Role
Learning Discourse
 
Chapter 9: Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation: Class and Race
Social Stratification
Caste
Class
Race
 
Chapter 10:Language and Gender
Pronunciation
Grammatical Variants
Choices of Vocabulary
Gender-Related Conversational Styles
Language and Sexuality
Images of Gender in Linguistic Form
 
Chapter 11: Multilingual Nations
India
Canada
The United States
 
Chapter 12: Bilingual Communities
Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism
Linguistic Change
Language Use in Bilingual Communities
Bilingual Conversational Strategies
Interethnic Miscommunication
 
Chapter 13: Language and Institutional Encounters
Language Ideologies
Language and Status
Institutional Contexts
Education
Medical Encounters
Legal Settings
The Media

About the author

Nancy Bonvillain is a professor of anthropology and linguistics at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She is author of over twenty books on language, culture, and gender, including a series on Native American peoples. In her field work she studied the Mohawk and Navajo, and she has published a grammar and dictionary of the Akwesasne dialect of Mohawk. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1972 and has taught at Columbia University, The New School, SUNY Purchase and Stonybrook, and Sarah Lawrence College.

Summary

Explore the connections among language, culture, and communicative meaning
 
Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages, Language, Culture and Communication, Seventh Edition, explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. The text examines the multifaceted meanings and uses of language. It also emphasizes the ways in which language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions.
 
Nancy Bonvillain focuses on analyzing communicative interactions, revealing how social relations are produced and reproduced through speech. The text also highlights the analysis of language ideologies, that is, the beliefs that people have about language structure itself, about language usage, and about appropriate norms for producing and evaluating speech. 
 
This 7th edition contains updated information throughout as well as several new sections.  Examples of language practices in African societies have also been added.
 
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Learning Goals 
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

• Recognize reputation and pattern in human speech.
• Understand the formation and structure of language.
• Have a strong understanding of the use of rhetoric in communication. 

 

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Bonvillain
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780205917648
• ISBN: 978-0-205-91764-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Pearson; Pearson
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology