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Anthropological Linguistics
An Introduction
William Foley (Author)
9780631151227, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 14 June 1997
520 pages
23 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm, 0.753 kg
"Foley's book illustrates quite convincingly that 'Linguistics without anthropology is sterile, anthropology without linguistics is blind'(Hockett 1973: 675)" Gunter Senft, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics "I applaud Foley for having overcome one of the main constraints of structuralist - inspired approaches to analysis." Peter Muhlhausler, University of Adelaide
It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalised forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics normally treated under the rubric of language and culture.
Preface. Part I: Introduction. 1. Introduction. Part II: The Evolution of Language. 2. The Evolution of Language. Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind. 3. Mind, Universals and the Sensible World. 4. Structuralism. 5. Cognitive Anthropology. 6. Kinship. 7. Color. Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind. 8. On Relativist Understanding. 9. Models and Metaphors. 10. Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition. 11. Space. 12. Classifiers. Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking. 13. Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples. 14. Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood. 15. Language and Gender. 16. Language and Social Position. 17. Language and Socialisation. 18. Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art. Part VI: Culture and Language Change. 19. Contact Induced Language Change. 20. Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering. 21. Literacy. References. Index.
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
