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Linguistic Anthropology
A Reader

"Another stellar contribution from a leading linguistic anthropologist who is also the field's foremost anthologist and textbook author. The updated readings, editorial framing, and appended study-questions are excellent throughout."
–Alan Rumsey, Australian National University

"This new volume reflects the vibrancy of work in linguistic anthropology, and will be an indispensable teaching resource for language and culture courses of many different kinds."
–Penelope Brown, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics

"This revised edition of Duranti's text provides an indispensable introduction to the vibrant field of linguisic anthopology. Duranti provides conceptual vocabulary and ethnographic exemplars for the complex multiplicity of language as a social activity, ranging from relatively isolated small-scale societies to speech communities within contemporary American society."
–Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario

"Framed by an excellent historical introduction, Duranti's reader provides students and scholars alike with a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to the range of topics and approaches that make up modern linguistic anthropology. The readings, linked by concise and thoughtful introductions, include a judicious mix of classic articles and new research. This collection should provide a definitive vision for linguistic anthropology for a long time to come."
–Bradd Shore, Emory University

"Very well organized and selected, and thus an excellent teaching resource, this reader provides perspective on the coherence of linguistic anthropology as a field. It can also be flexibly tailored to bring a linguistic approach to most arenas of topical interest to contemporary anthropological research."
–George Marcus, Rice University

Alessandro Duranti (Edited by)

9781405126328, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 9 April 2009

544 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3 cm, 0.798 kg

"Alessandro Duranti has succeeded in compiling an excellent reader that many instructors and students will find useful as an introduction to key works in linguistic anthropology. Leaders in the theory and practice of contemporary linguistic anthropology are well represented, and all of the articles are excellent; indeed, most are recognized as contemporary "classics" in the field. This reader is an excellent addition to the growing library of readers in linguistic anthropology and a valuable new resource for both students and teachers." (Current Anthropology [from 1st edition])

"Many of the articles included...are examples of highly innovative scholarly work on issues of language related to culture. It provides an excellent (and long overdue) discussion of terminology, American lingustic anthropology's development within Cultural Anthropology, its subsequent drift away from anthropology towards an independent discipline increasingly focused on theoretical anthropologists in the late 1960s, and its reestablishment as a subfield of anthropology in the 1980s-90s. As a textbook this reader makes a very useful teaching aid, as a source book it provides valuable insights into the discipline of linguistic anthropology." (Linguist List)

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 key subjects, including speech communities, the power and performance of language, and narratives
  • Selections are both historically oriented and thematically coherent, and are accessibly grouped according to four major themes: speech community and communicative competence; the performance of language; language socialization and literacy practices; and the power of language
  • An extensive introduction provides an original perspective on the development of the field and highlights its most compelling issues
  • Each section includes a brief introductory statement, sets of guiding questions, and list of recommended readings on the main topics

Acknowledgments to the Second Edition viii

Preface to the Second Edition ix

Linguistic Anthropology: History, Ideas, and Issues 1
Alessandro Duranti

Part I Ideal and Real Speech Communities 61

Introduction 63

1 The Speech Community 66
John J. Gumperz

2 The African-American Speech Community: Reality and Sociolinguists 74
Marcyliena Morgan

3 The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities 93
Debra Spitulnik

4 Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters 114
Benjamin Bailey

5 The Idealised Native Speaker, Reified Ethnicities, and Classroom Realities 137
Constant Leung, Roxy Harris, and Ben Rampton

Part II The Performance of Language: Events, Genres, and Narratives 151

Introduction 153

6 Ways of Speaking 158
Dell Hymes

7 Formality and Informality in Communicative Events 172
Judith T. Irvine

8 Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings 188
Alessandro Duranti

9 Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power 214
Charles L. Briggs and Richard Bauman

10 Narrating the Political Self in a Campaign for US Congress 245
Alessandro Duranti

11 Hip Hop Nation Language 272
H. Samy Alim

Part III Language Socialization and Literacy Practices 291

Introduction 293

12 Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications 296
Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin

13 Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom 329
Susan U. Philips

14 What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School 343
Shirley Brice Heath

15 Creating Social Identities through Doctrina Narratives 364
Patricia Baquedano-López

Part IV the Power of Language 379

Introduction 381

16 Arizona Tewa Kiva Speech as a Manifestation of a Dominant Language Ideology 386
Paul V. Kroskrity

17 Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation 402
Judith T. Irvine and Susan Gal

18 The ‘‘Father Knows Best’’ Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives 435
Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor

19 Professional Vision 452
Charles Goodwin

20 Language, Race, and White Public Space 479
Jane H. Hill

21 No 493
Don Kulick

Index 504

Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
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