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As children are learning to become competent members of their society, so also are they learning to become competent speakers of their language. In other words socialisation and …
Most studies of gender differences in language use have been undertaken from exclusively either a sociocultural or a biological perspective. By contrast, this innovative volume …
In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine ‘responsibility’, ‘authority’, and ‘knowledge’: central, but …
Indonesian is the national language of a vast, plural nation state, the world’s fourth-largest country with a population of over 200 million. Although its use is growing rapidly, …
Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this study Niko Besnier analyses the …
Jeff Siegel's fascinating book provides a sociolinguistic history of language contact in Fiji where, from the 1860s until 1920, some 90,000 labourers from other Pacific islands and …
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 people use to express emotion, …
Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received …
Children’s aquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-culturally the connections between …
Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir–Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think …