Language Diversity and Thought

John A Lucy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 12
• Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language tha... Lees meer

Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture

Marcyliena H Morgan, Morgan Marcyliena

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 20
• African American language is central to the teaching of linguistics and language in the United States, and this book covers the entire field--grammar,... Lees meer

Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia

Joel C Kuipers

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 18
• The rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of Indonesia has diminished the significance of local languages. On the island of Sumba, this ... Lees meer

Literacy, Emotion and Authority

Niko Besnier

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 16
• In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society, using a c... Lees meer

Culture and Language Development

Elinor Ochs

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 6
• As children are learning to become competent members of their society, so also are they learning to become competent speakers of their language. In ot... Lees meer

Language and Social Relations

Asif Agha

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 24
• Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This fascinat... Lees meer

Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 15
• Twelve articles by leading linguists and linguistic anthropologists develop an important series of case studies that show how ideas such as "responsib... Lees meer

Language Socialization Across Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 3
• Children's acquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-cultur... Lees meer

Investigating Obsolescence

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 7
• Over the past 500 years, half the known languages of the world have vanished. This comprehensive overview of the study of contracting and dying langua... Lees meer

Shifting Languages

J Joseph Errington

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 19
• Until recently, Indonesian, the national language of a vast, plural nation state, was spoken by very few of the Javanese who live in south-central Jav... Lees meer

Language and Emotion

James M Wilce

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 25
• Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals pe... Lees meer

Ku Waru

Francesca Merlan, Alan Rumsey, Merlan Francesca

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 10
• The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. This book is the first to concentrate on exchange event... Lees meer

Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 8
• First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other volum... Lees meer

Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture

Marcyliena H Morgan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 20
• African American language is central to the teaching of linguistics and language in the United States, and this book covers the entire field--grammar,... Lees meer

Investigating Obsolescence

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 7
• Over the past 500 years, half the known languages of the world have vanished. This comprehensive overview of the study of contracting and dying langua... Lees meer

Literacy and Literacies

James Collins, Richard K Blot, Collins James

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 22
• Developing a new synthesis of literacy studies, this book explores the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educa... Lees meer

Voices of Modernity

Richard Bauman, Charles S Briggs, Charles L Briggs

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 21
• This study asserts that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery ... Lees meer

Language and Social Relations

Asif Agha

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 24
• Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This fascinat... Lees meer

Rethinking Context

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 11
• The past decade has seen a fundamental rethinking of the concept of context. Rather than functioning solely as a constraint on linguistic performance,... Lees meer

Shifting Languages

J Joseph Errington, James Joseph Errington

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 19
• Until recently, Indonesian, the national language of a vast, plural nation state, was spoken by very few of the Javanese who live in south-central Jav... Lees meer

Grammatical Categories and Cognition

Lucy John A. Lucy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
• Illustrates the new approach to empirical research on the linguistic relativity hypothesis which Lucy develops in a companion volume Language Diversit... Lees meer

Literacy, Emotion and Authority

Niko Besnier

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 16
• In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society, using a c... Lees meer

Language, Culture, and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 23
• Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into ... Lees meer

Voices of Modernity

Richard Bauman, Charles S Briggs, Charles L Briggs

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language | nr. 21
• This study asserts that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery ... Lees meer