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Linguistic Anthropology
Author(s): Alessandro Duranti (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: September 28, 1997
- Language: English
- Print length: 422 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521449936
- ISBN-13: 9780521449939
Book Description
Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field that studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The theories and methods of linguistic anthropology are introduced through a discussion of linguistic diversity, grammar in use, the role of speaking in social interaction, the organization and meaning of conversational structures, and the notion of participation as a unit of analysis. Linguistic Anthropology will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students.
Editorial Reviews
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“Once in a while a book is published that defines and shapes the content of a discipline. Duranti’s Linguistic Antrhopology is one of those books. Rooted in a profound knowledge of historical and current scholarship in both linguistics and anthropology…the author’s discourse provides a clear manifesto for linguistic anthropology as a full-grown discipline of its own. …instructors for linguistic anthropology classes will find this book extremely valuable. I know of no other text that is so well -documented about issues, theories, and methods in linguistic anthropology both synchronically and diachronically. …the book is very coherent theoretically…it proposes a clear, distinctive way of doing linguistic anthropology. …anybody who intends to conduct research in this discipline will find this to be an extremely valuable resource. ” Giovanni Bennardo, American Anthropology
“Linguistic anthropology should be of great help in opening up this dynamic branch of research to a broader audience.” language in Society
Book Description
An introduction to linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice.
