Synopsis of Contents vii
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Notes on Contributors xvi
Part I: Speech Communities, Contact, and Variation 1
1 Speech Community 3
Marcyliena Morgan
2 Registers of Language 23
Asif Agha
3 Language Contact and Contact Languages 46
Paul B. Garrett
4 Codeswitching 73
Kathryn A. Woolard
5 Diversity, Hierarchy, and Modernity in Pacific Island
Communities 95
Niko Besnier
6 The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds
through North American Indian Languages 121
Marianne Mithun
7 Variation in Sign Languages 141
Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan
Part II: The Performing of Language 167
8 Conversation as a Cultural Activity 169
Elizabeth Keating and Maria Egbert
9 Gesture 197
John B. Haviland
10 Participation 222
Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin
11 Literacy Practices across Learning Contexts 245
Patricia Baquedano-López
12 Narrative Lessons 269
Elinor Ochs
13 Poetry 290
Giorgio Banti and Francesco Giannattasio
14 Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to the
Language of Song 321
Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello, and David Samuels
Part III: Achieving Subjectivities and Intersubjectivities through Language 347
15 Language Socialization 349
Don Kulick and Bambi B. Schieffelin
16 Language and Identity 369
Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall
17 Misunderstanding 395
Benjamin Bailey
18 Language and Madness 414
James M. Wilce
19 Language and Religion 431
Webb Keane
Part IV: The Power in Language 449
20 Agency in Language 451
Alessandro Duranti
21 Language and Social Inequality 474
Susan U. Philips
22 Language Ideologies 496
Paul V. Kroskrity
General Bibliography 518
Index 606
Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture at UCLA. His books include From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (1994), Linguistic Anthropology (1997), Key Terms in Language and Culture (2001), and Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (editor, 2001). In 1999 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a former president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology and former editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. In 2001 Duranti received the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
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