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Summary
Summary
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.
Author Notes
Christine Jourdan is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal
Kevin Tuite is Professeur titulaire (full Professor) of Anthropology at the Universite de Montreal
Table of Contents
List of tables | p. ix |
List of contributors | p. x |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: Walking through walls | p. 1 |
1 An issue about language | p. 16 |
2 Linguistic relativities | p. 47 |
3 Benjamin Lee Whorf and the Boasian foundations of contemporary ethnolinguistics | p. 82 |
4 Cognitive anthropology | p. 96 |
5 Methodological issues in cross-language color naming | p. 115 |
6 Pidgins and creoles genesis: an anthropological offering | p. 135 |
7 Bilingualism | p. 156 |
8 The impact of language socialization on grammatical development | p. 168 |
9 Intimate grammars: anthropological and psychoanalytic accounts of language, gender, and desire | p. 190 |
10 Maximizing ethnopoetics: fine-tuning anthropological experience | p. 207 |
11 Interpreting language variation and change | p. 229 |
References | p. 257 |
Index | p. 301 |