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Language and social relations / Asif Agha.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 24.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: xv, 427 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521571766
  • 0521576857
  • 9780521571760
  • 9780521576857
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44 22
LOC classification:
  • P40 .A35 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Reflexivity -- From referring to registers -- Register formations -- The social life of cultural value -- Regrouping identity -- Registers of person deixis -- Honorific registers -- Norm and trope in kinship behavior.
Review: "Language connects people to each other in social relationships and allows them to participate in a variety of activities in everyday life. This original study explores the role of language in various domains of our social life, including identity, gender, class, kinship, deference, status, hierarchy, and others. Drawing on materials from over thirty languages and societies, this book shows that language is not simply a tool of social conduct but the effective means by which human beings formulate models of conduct."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-418) and index.

Reflexivity -- From referring to registers -- Register formations -- The social life of cultural value -- Regrouping identity -- Registers of person deixis -- Honorific registers -- Norm and trope in kinship behavior.

"Language connects people to each other in social relationships and allows them to participate in a variety of activities in everyday life. This original study explores the role of language in various domains of our social life, including identity, gender, class, kinship, deference, status, hierarchy, and others. Drawing on materials from over thirty languages and societies, this book shows that language is not simply a tool of social conduct but the effective means by which human beings formulate models of conduct."--Jacket.

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