The matrix of language : contemporary linguistic anthropology /: contemporary linguistic anthropology. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Donald Brenneis and Ronald K.S. Macaulay, Pitzer College.
• Editors: Brenneis, Donald Lawrence, 1946-; Macaulay, Ronald K. S
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part One: Learning Language, Learning Culture; 2. What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School; 3. Detective Stories at Dinnertime: Problem-Solving Through Co-Narration; 4. Har Words: A Functional Basis for Kaluli Discourse; Part Two: Gender, Power and Discourse; 5. A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication; 6. Norm-Makers, Norm-Breakers: Uses of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community; 7. The Whole Women: Sex and Gender Differences in Variation Part Three: Genre, Style, Performance8. Biography of a Sentence: A Burmese Proverb; 9. ""Any Man Who Keeps More'n One Hound'll Lie to You"": A Contextual Study of Expressive Lying; 10. Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, Disorder, and Narrative Discourses; Part Four: Language as Social Practice; 11. Grog and Gossip in Bhatgaon: Style and Substance in Fiji Indian Conversation; 12. Reflections on a Meeting: Structure, Language, and the Polity in a Small-Scale Society; 13. When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy 14. Monoglot ""Standard"" in America: Standardization and Metaphors of Linguistic Hegemony15. The Grammer of Consciousness and the Consciousness of Grammar; About the Book and Editors; Contributors; Credits; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 306.442; Anthropological linguistics; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Anthropological linguistics; Ethnolinguistik; Ethnolinguisitique; Kulturkontakt; Antropologische linguïstiek; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429964831; 0429964838; 9780429975912; 0429975910
• Related ISBNs: 9780813323206
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 27, 2018).
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.