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Social anthropology and language /

Providing a critical framework for the consideration of the relationship between modern social anthropology and linguistics, this volume covers topics such as classification, symbolism, and structuralism. The relevance of the works of Saussure, Lévi-Strauss and Chomsky is considered. There are two...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ardener, Edwin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introductory essay : social anthropology and language / Edwin Ardener
  • Early British anthropologists and language / Hilary Henson
  • Malinowski, Firth, and the 'context of situation' / R.H. Robins
  • Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking / Dell Hymes
  • Customs and cases of verbal behaviour / J.B. Pride
  • A note on multilingualism / W.H. Whiteley
  • Some coastal pidgins of West Africa / Elizabeth Tonkin
  • Some observations on language variety and plurilingualism / N. Denison
  • Prosodic and paralinguistic correlates of social categories / D. Crystal
  • Social anthropology and the historicity of historical linguistics / Edwin Ardener
  • The quartered shield : outline of a semantic taxonomy / G.B. Milner
  • Some ideas of Saussure applied to Buryat magical drawings / Caroline Humphrey.