Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 138 pages)
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Illustration
ISBN:
9781350059849
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9781350059832
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9781350059825
Content:
"In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between "Blanguage in particular" and "Bculture in general" by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground for understanding language in culture, which helps in turn to understand how it enables us to adapt to the world of lived material experience. Written in an accessible style and drawing on an extensive corpus of primary field research from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Japan, Taiwan, Scotland, and Ireland, Strathern and Stewart present a world anthropology which links together European, North American, and Asia-Pacific approaches to the topic. Students and scholars alike of sociocultual anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and linguistics will benefit from this engaging work on how the various components of our culture are informed and shaped through language."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Language as cultural practice -- Origins -- Language, practice, and embodiment -- Themes in language practice -- Cognition and categories : the work of Roy Ellen -- Cognition and categories : the work of Anna Wierzbicka -- Cognitive science and language -- Language and ritual : the merina and the melpa -- Language and ritual : maring and melpa -- Language and power -- Language, literacy, and change : Scots and Tok Pisin -- Excursions, translations, and explorations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350059818
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strathern, Andrew, 1939 - Language and culture in dialogue London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781350059818
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sprache
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Kultur
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Ethnolinguistik
DOI:
10.5040/9781350059849
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