Linguistic Anthropology - A Reader

Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA. His publications include Key Terms in Language and Culture (Wiley-Blackwell! 2001) and A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (Wiley-Blackwell! 2004). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the recipient of various awards! including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship! the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award! and the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Klappentext Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on speech communities, the power and performance of language, and narratives, among others.Editor Alessandro Duranti's extensive introduction provides an original perspective on the development of the field and highlights its most compelling issues. Each section of the volume includes a brief introductory statement, a set of guiding questions, and a recommended further reading list. The readings are both historically oriented and thematically coherent, and are grouped according to four themes: speech community and communicative competence; the performance of language; language socialization and literacy practices; and the power of language. Duranti has taken care throughout to trace theoretical and methodological connections among different authors and research agendas from anthropology and other disciplines. This is a collection that stands to serve both scholars and students. Zusammenfassung Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments to the Second EditionPreface to the Second EditionPart I: Ideal and Real Speech CommunitiesPart II: The Performance of Language: Events, Genres, and NarrativesPart III: Language Socialization and Literacy PracticesPart IV: The Power of LanguageIndex...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Duranti, Alessandro Duranti
• Con la collaborazione di: Alessandr Duranti (Editore), Alessandro Duranti (Editore), Alessandro (University of California Duranti (Editore), Duranti Alessandro (Editore)
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9781405126328
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-2632-8
• Pagine: 522
• Dimensioni: 170 mm x 244 mm x 27 mm
• Serie: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Blackwell Anthologies in Socia; Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Categorie: Libri scolastici; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Anthropologie, Soziolinguistik, Angewandte Linguistik, Linguistics, Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Sprachwissenschaften, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistische Anthropologie