On Reconstructing Grammar

Spike Gildea

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 18
• This book shows how to combine grammaticalization theory with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages. To showcase the me... Lees meer

Telling Our Selves

Chase Hensel

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 5
• In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk abou... Lees meer

Vernacular Literacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 13
• This book contains first-hand information on the history, economics, and politics surrounding literacy issues all over the world. Discussions are supp... Lees meer

Classificatory Particles in Kilivila

Gunter Senft

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 1
• Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct class... Lees meer

Rongorongo

Steven Roger (Director, Director, Institute of Polynesian Langua

• Hardcover | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Documents Easter Island's enigmatic script, Rongorongo, Oceania's only known pre-20th-century writing system. This study of this eloquent graphic achi... Lees meer

The Powers of Genre

Peter Seitel

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 22
• The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a... Lees meer

Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers

David Kronenfeld

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 3
• Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when some... Lees meer

Seldom Ask, Never Tell

Anita Puckett

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 25
• Puckett takes a new look at the relationship between language, society, and economics by examining how people talk about work in a rural Appalachian c... Lees meer

A Language of Our Own

Peter Bakker

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 10
• The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible languag... Lees meer

American Indian Languages

Lyle Campbell

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 4
• Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the... Lees meer

Referring to Space

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 11
• This collection of previously unpublished case studies of a number of Austronesian and Papuan languages illustrates the means that these languages off... Lees meer

Speaking Through the Silence

Laine A Berman

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 19
• Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Java... Lees meer

Ideology in the Language of Judges

Susan Urmston Philips

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 17
• A text that will appeal to any reader interested in the relation of language to the law, or vice versa, Ideological Diversity in Courtroom Discourse f... Lees meer

Power Sharing

Elizabeth Keating

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 23
• What allows certain individuals and groups to maintain control over the actions and lives of others? linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating went ... Lees meer

Disorderly Discourse

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 7
• Conflict plays a crucial role in social interactions, and representations of conflict are an important aspect of language. Stories and narratives invo... Lees meer

Words and Stones

Daniel Lefkowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 26
• Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel throug... Lees meer

Telling Our Selves

Chase Hensel

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 5
• In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk abou... Lees meer

Ideology in the Language of Judges

Susan U Philips

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 17
• A study that will appeal to any reader interested in the relationship between our language and our laws, Ideology in the Language of Judges focuses on... Lees meer

A Language of Our Own

Peter Bakker

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 10
• The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible languag... Lees meer

Eloquence in Trouble

James M Wilce

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 21
• Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, ... Lees meer

Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

Cecil H Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 20
• Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique s... Lees meer

Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict

William Boothby

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Bringing together the law of armed conflict governing the use of weapons into a single volume, the fully updated Second Edition of Weapons and the Law... Lees meer

Language Ideologies

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 16
• "Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. ... Lees meer

The Korowai of Irian Jaya

Gerrit J Van Enk, Lourens de Vries, Enk de Vries Van

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics | nr. 9
• Irian Jaya is the official name of the western half of New Guinea, a province of Indonesia since the 1960s. Its inhabitants are generally untouched by... Lees meer