Language, Culture, and Society

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Over seven editions, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like these because of its comprehensive coverage of all aspects of linguistic anthropology.

Autorentext

James Stanlaw is Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University. His areas of interest include linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology, language and culture contact, and Japan and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact.

Nobuko Adachi is Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University. Adachi's research interests focus on sociolinguistics, Japanese immigration in South America, transnationalism, globalization, diasporas, and race and ethnic identity. She is the author of Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune: Children of Nature.

Inhalt

1. Introducing Linguistic Anthropology, 2. Methods of Linguistic Anthropology, 3. The "Nuts and Bolts" of Linguistic Anthropology I: Language is Sound, 4. The "Nuts and Bolts" of Linguistic Anthropology II: Structure of Words and Sentences, 5. Communicating Nonverbally, 6. Language and Evolution, 7. Acquiring and Using Language(s): Life with First Languages, Second Languages, and More, 8. Language Through Time, 9. Linguistics for Archaeologists, 10. Languages in Variation and Languages in Contact, 11. Culture as Cognition, Culture as Categorization: Meaning and Language in the Conceptual World, 12. Language, Culture, and Thought, 13. Language, Identity, and Ideology I: Variations in Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality, 14. Language, Identity, and Ideology II: Variations in Gender, 15. The Linguistic Anthropology in a Globalized and Digitalized World