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Summary
Summary
Whenever we open our mouths to speak, we provide those who hear us, chosen interlocuters or mere bystanders, with a wealth of data, linguistic clues others use to position us within a specific social strata. Our particular uses of language mark us geographically, ethnically, by age or sex, and, especially in stratified societies, according to class or caste. This collection of papers by researchers in cultural and linguistic anthropology examine these concepts as well as many others.
Linguists, anthropologists, and others concerned with the formal study of the social uses and functions of language are concerned with documenting the implications of such judging on the lives of various peoples around the world and among the classes within their own societies. What linguistic features of speech are used to form stereotypical impressions about the social identity (as well as the character) of others? How are linguistic features linked to ethnicity, to gender, to race, and to class? This collection of papers by researchers in cultural and linguistic anthropology examine these concepts as well as many others.
Author Notes
RICHARD K. BLOT is Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics at Lehman College of the City University of New York, where he teaches anthropology, linguistics, and education.
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xix |
1. Introduction | p. 1 |
2. Language and Indians' Place in Chiapas, Mexico: A Testimony from the Tzotzil Maya | p. 11 |
3. The Deficits of History: Terms of Violence in an Arapaco Myth Complex from the Brazilian Northwest Amazon | p. 39 |
4. Giving Voice to the Hill Spirit: Mayan Visionary Testimony in Southern Belize | p. 57 |
5. "We Don't Speak Catalan Because We Are Marginalized": Ethnic and Class Meanings of Language in Barcelona | p. 85 |
6. The Politics of Representation: Class and Identity in Cochabamba, Bolivia | p. 105 |
7. The Narrative Construction of E'napa Ethnicity | p. 125 |
8. Ebonics, Language, and Power | p. 147 |
9. Containing Language Difference: Advertising in Hispanic Magazine | p. 171 |
10. The Other Tongue, the Other Voice: Language and Gender in the French Caribbean | p. 199 |
11. Reclaiming Traditions, Remaking Community: Politics, Language, and Place among the Tolowa of Northwest California | p. 225 |
12. "Word-Sound-Power": Language, Social Identity, and the Worldview of Rastafari | p. 243 |
13. Passionate Speech and Literate Talk in Grenada | p. 261 |
Index | p. 283 |
About the Contributors | p. 291 |