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Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts

Author : James W. Underhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107378583
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts written by James W. Underhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ethnolinguistics' is the study of how language relates to culture and ethnicity. This book offers an original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as truth, love, hate and war are expressed across cultures and ethnicities. James W. Underhill seeks to situate these key cultural concepts within four languages (English, French, Czech and German). Not only do these concepts differ from language to language, but they go on changing over time. The book explores issues such as how far meaning is politically and culturally influenced, how far language shapes the thought of ethnic groups and how far their thought shapes language, and the role of individuals in the consolidation of cultural concepts. It offers a clear and thought-provoking account of how concepts are understood and will be welcomed by those working in the fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, semantics and pragmatics.

Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts

Author : James William Underhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139379946
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts written by James William Underhill and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as love and hate are expressed across cultures and ethnicities.

Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts

Author : James W. Underhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139371667
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts written by James W. Underhill and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as love and hate are expressed across cultures and ethnicities.

Language, Culture and Identity

Author : Philip Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441168788
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Language, Culture and Identity written by Philip Riley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How language shapes and is shaped by identity is a key topic within sociolinguistics. An individual's identity is constituted through a variety of different factors, including the social, cultural and ethnic contexts, and issues such as bi- or multilingualism. In this introduction to Language, Culture and Identity Philip Riley looks at these issues against the theoretical background of the sociology of knowledge, and ethnolinguistics. He asks; how do we learn who we are, and what are the mechanisms that teach us this? Through an analysis of the importance of culture and interpersonal communication, Riley shows how social identities are negotiated. The second half of the book looks at issues of ethnicity and bilingualism, and the importance of a series of oppositions to 'others'. The idea of 'the foreigner' is central to this account, yet traditional views of the role of being socially 'other' largely neglect the role of language. Riley bridges this gap by examining specific and problematic aspects of multilingual identities. The book concludes by looking at some of the ways in which identities are being reconfigured, with particular reference to the notions of 'ethos' and the 'communicative virtues'. This engaging analysis of language and social identity will be essential reading for students of sociolinguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Language in Culture

Author : Michael Silverstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009198823
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Language in Culture written by Michael Silverstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (1945–2020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures. Focusing not just on what people say but how we say it, Silverstein shows how discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that discourse far exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity. Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose, Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples – from brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau's pantomime, the class-laced banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on forebears in linguistics and anthropology while offering his distinctive semiotic approach, redefining how we think about language and culture.

Culture and Language Use

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289301
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Language Use written by Gunter Senft and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this second volume reviews basic topics and traditions that place language use in its cultural context. As emphasized in the introduction, and as revealed in the choice of articles, ‘culture’ is by no means to be seen as standing in opposition to society and cognition; on the contrary, the notion cannot be understood without insight into the intricate interactions of social and cognitive structures and processes. In addition to the topical articles, a number of contributions to this volume is devoted to aspects of methodology. Others highlight the role of eminent scholars who have made the study of cultural dimensions of language use into what it is today.

Language, Culture, Identity

Author : Maria Banaś
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847015745
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Language, Culture, Identity written by Maria Banaś and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions gathered in this volume attempt to take varied perspectives on current state of art within the field of linguistics, sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics. This vast interpretative perspective stretches from the modern European and American conceptualisations of the societal identity, through the extralinguistic reality hidden behind the language expressions and phraseology in order to complete this image with the insightful presentation of various linguistic diasporas. Sociopragmatic and ethnolinguistic considerations accomplish this attempt to represent the leading themes of modern linguistic studies. Diverse methodological and empirical perspectives are employed in the present volume – from socio- and ethnolinguistic issues through (inter)cultural and communication studies to good practices in translatology.

Approaches to Language and Culture

Author : Svenja Völkel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110726629
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Language and Culture written by Svenja Völkel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.

Language, Culture, and Society

Author : Christine Jourdan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139452517
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Language, Culture, and Society written by Christine Jourdan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.

Language and Culture in Dialogue

Author : Andrew J. Strathern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181464
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Language and Culture in Dialogue written by Andrew J. Strathern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular” and “culture in general” by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground for understanding language in culture, which helps in turn to understand how it enables us to adapt to the world of lived material experience. Written in an accessible style and drawing on an extensive corpus of primary field research from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Japan, Taiwan, Scotland, and Ireland, Strathern and Stewart present a world anthropology which links together European, North American, and Asia-Pacific approaches to the topic. Students and scholars alike of sociocultual anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and linguistics will benefit from this engaging work on how the various components of our culture are informed and shaped through language.

The Linguistic Worldview

Author : Adam Glaz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 8376560743
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book The Linguistic Worldview written by Adam Glaz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the book is concerned with the linguistic worldview broadly understood, but it focuses on one particular variant of the idea, its sources, extensions, its critical assessment, and inspirations for related research. This approach is the ethnolinguistic linguistic worldview (LWV) program pursued in Lublin, Poland, and initiated and headed by Jerzy Bartminski. In its basic design, the volume emerged from the theme of the conference held in Lublin in October 2011: "The linguistic worldview or linguistic views of worlds?" If the latter is the case, then what worlds? Is it a case of one language/one worldview? Are there literary or poetic worldviews? Are there auctorial worldviews? Many of the chapters are based on presentations from that conference, and others have been written especially for the volume. Generally, there are four kinds of contributions: (i) a presentation and exemplification of the "Lublin style" LWV approach; (ii) studies inspired by this approach but not following it in detail; (iii) independent but related and compatible research; and (iv) a critical reappraisal of some specific ideas proposed by Jerzy Bartminski and his collaborators.

Culture

Author : Regna Darnell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110816091
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Culture written by Regna Darnell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published works are relatively inaccessible, and valuable unpublished material has been found, the preparation of a complete edition of all his published and unpublished works was long overdue. The wide range of Sapir's scholarship as well as the amount of work necessary to put the unpublished manuscripts into publishable form pose unique challenges for the editors. Many scholars from a variety of fields as well as American Indian language specialists are providing significant assistance in the making of this multi-volume series.

Culture and Communication

Author : James M. Wilce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107031303
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Communication written by James M. Wilce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory textbook of culture and communication shows students how to use language as a tool to reveal cultural phenomena.

Orality and Language

Author : G. N. Devy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000214656
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Orality and Language written by G. N. Devy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of the society, culture and literature among indigenous peoples. This book, the fourth in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of language and orality of indigenous peoples from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts from across the globe, it looks at the intricacies of oral transmission of memory and culture, literary production and transmission, and the nature of creativity among indigenous communities. It also discusses the risk of a complete decline of the languages of indigenous peoples, as well as the attempts being made to conserve these languages. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book, with its wide coverage, will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, and Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities.

Language, Society, and Culture

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551303477
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Language, Society, and Culture written by Marcel Danesi and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is the core of human culture - anthropologists have always put it at the centre of their agenda. So too have many linguists. The amalgam of the two disciplines, anthropological linguistics, aims to document and examine how language mirrors social structure and culture-specific thought patterns. Language, Society, and Culture provides a concrete method for studying the relation between language and society. Intended for use in introductory-level courses in linguistics that adopt a cultural focus, this text is also suitable for supplementary use in more theoretical linguistics courses. Written in Danesi's accessible and engaging style, highlighting the fascinating and vital work going on in anthropological linguistics, this book will also appeal to a broad audience of language students, scholars, and enthusiasts.

Cultural Conceptualisations and Language

Author : Farzad Sharifian
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728718X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Conceptualisations and Language written by Farzad Sharifian and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. Viewing language as firmly grounded in cultural cognition, the model draws on analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, anthropological linguistics, distributed cognition, complexity science, and cognitive psychology. The result is a framework that has significant implications for those disciplines as well as for applied linguistics. Applications of the model to intercultural communication, cross-cultural pragmatics, English as an International Language/World Englishes, and political discourse analysis are explored in detail.

Race, Language, and Culture

Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226062414
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Race, Language, and Culture written by Franz Boas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology... is often held to be a subject that may satisfy our curiosity regarding the early history of mankind, but of no immediate bearing upon the problems that confront us. This view has always seemed to me erroneous... In the following pages I have collected such of my writings as, I hope, will prove the validity of my point of view.