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Making sense of language : readings in culture and communication / Susan D. Blum.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: xi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195336380
  • 9780195336382
  • 0195336399
  • 9780195336399
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400 22
LOC classification:
  • P107 .B595 2009
Contents:
Part I. The Nature of Language -- Unit 1. What Is Language? -- 1. Smiles, Winks, and Words / Robbins Burling -- 2. The Origins of Speech / Charles Hockett -- 3. Nature of the Linguistic Sign / Ferdinand de Saussure -- 4. How Language Works / Steven Pinker -- 5. Signing and Speaking - Competitors, Alternatives, or Incompatibles? / William C. Stokoe -- 6. Why Gossip is Good for You / Robin Dunbar -- 7. The Orality of Language / Walter J. Ong -- 8. Aspects of Literacy / Brian V. Street and Niko Besnier -- Unit 2. Language and Thought -- 9. The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language / Benjamin Lee Whorf -- 10. Codifications of Reality - Lineal and Nonlineal / Dorothy Lee -- 11. Metaphors We Live By / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson -- 12. Language and Mind - Let's Get the Issues Straight! / Stephen C. Levinson -- Part II. Language and Society -- Unit 3. Multilingualism -- Societal Multilingualism -- 13. Chinese, English, Spanish ' and the Rest - How do the World's very large languages operate within its 'communicative ecology'?' - Can we retitle - 'The Power of the World's Languages (with Special Attention to English)'? / Tom McArthur -- 14. Triglossia - African Privilege or Necessity? / Rajmund Ohly -- 15. Bad Language - Bad Citizens / Edwin L. Battistella -- Individual Multilingualism -- 16. A Linguistic Odyssey - One Family's Experience with Language Shift and Cultural Identity in Germany and France / David Antal -- 17. Bilingualism en casa / Ana Celia Zentella -- 18. Conversational Code Switching / John J. Gumperz -- 19. Language Choice, Religion, and Identity in the Banarsi Community / Beth Simon -- Language Endangerment and Revitalization -- 20. Most of the World's Languages Went Extinct / John H. McWhorter -- 21. The Future of Native Languages / Lindsay J. Whaley -- 22. Language Loss and Revitalization in California - Overview / Leanne Hinton -- Unit 4. Language and Identity -- Region and Class -- 23. They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City / Dennis R. Preston -- 24. Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores / William Labov -- 25. New York Jewish Conversational Style / Deborah Tannen -- 26. Suite for Ebony and Phonics / John R. Rickford -- 27. Nuthin' but a G Thang' - Grammar and Language Ideology in Hip Hop Identity / Marcyliena Morgan -- 28. The Whiteness of Nerds - Superstandard English and Racial Markedness / Mary Bucholtz -- 29. Language Ideology and Racial Inequality - Competing Functions of Spanish in an Anglo-Owned Mexican Restaurant / Rusty Barrett -- Gender -- 30. Women's Language' or 'Powerless Language'?' / William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins -- 31. Women Talk Too Much / Janet Holmes -- 32. Power and the Language of Men / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- 33. Performing Gender Identity - Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity / Deborah Cameron -- 34. Norm-Makers, Norm-Breakers - Uses of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community / Elinor Keenan (Ochs) -- Part III. Language As Social Action -- Unit 5. Discourse, Performance, and Ritual -- 35. How to Do Things with Words / J. L. Austin -- 36. Kuna Curing and Magic - Counseling the Spirits' / Joel Sherzer -- 37. Naming Practices and the Power of Words in China / Susan D. Blum -- 38. Amen and Hallelujah Preaching - Discourse Functions in African American Sermons / Cheryl Wharry -- 39. Courtroom Questioning as a Culturally Situated Persuasive Genre of Talk / Yanrong Chang -- 40. Relationships' [change to 'The Internet and Relationships'] / Daniel Miller and Don Slater -- Unit 6. Language Ideology -- 41. Anger, Gender, Language Shift, and the Politics of Revelation in a Papua New Guinean Village / Don Kulick -- 42. Accent, Standard Language Ideology, and Discriminatory Pretext in the Courts / Rosina Lippi-Green -- 43. Orality - Another Language Ideology / Laura Polich -- 44. Let Your Words Be Few - Speaking and Silence in Quaker Ideology / Richard Bauman -- 45. 'To Give Up on Words' - Silence in Western Apache Culture / Keith Basso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The Nature of Language -- Unit 1. What Is Language? -- 1. Smiles, Winks, and Words / Robbins Burling -- 2. The Origins of Speech / Charles Hockett -- 3. Nature of the Linguistic Sign / Ferdinand de Saussure -- 4. How Language Works / Steven Pinker -- 5. Signing and Speaking - Competitors, Alternatives, or Incompatibles? / William C. Stokoe -- 6. Why Gossip is Good for You / Robin Dunbar -- 7. The Orality of Language / Walter J. Ong -- 8. Aspects of Literacy / Brian V. Street and Niko Besnier -- Unit 2. Language and Thought -- 9. The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language / Benjamin Lee Whorf -- 10. Codifications of Reality - Lineal and Nonlineal / Dorothy Lee -- 11. Metaphors We Live By / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson -- 12. Language and Mind - Let's Get the Issues Straight! / Stephen C. Levinson -- Part II. Language and Society -- Unit 3. Multilingualism -- Societal Multilingualism -- 13. Chinese, English, Spanish ' and the Rest - How do the World's very large languages operate within its 'communicative ecology'?' - Can we retitle - 'The Power of the World's Languages (with Special Attention to English)'? / Tom McArthur -- 14. Triglossia - African Privilege or Necessity? / Rajmund Ohly -- 15. Bad Language - Bad Citizens / Edwin L. Battistella -- Individual Multilingualism -- 16. A Linguistic Odyssey - One Family's Experience with Language Shift and Cultural Identity in Germany and France / David Antal -- 17. Bilingualism en casa / Ana Celia Zentella -- 18. Conversational Code Switching / John J. Gumperz -- 19. Language Choice, Religion, and Identity in the Banarsi Community / Beth Simon -- Language Endangerment and Revitalization -- 20. Most of the World's Languages Went Extinct / John H. McWhorter -- 21. The Future of Native Languages / Lindsay J. Whaley -- 22. Language Loss and Revitalization in California - Overview / Leanne Hinton -- Unit 4. Language and Identity -- Region and Class -- 23. They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City / Dennis R. Preston -- 24. Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores / William Labov -- 25. New York Jewish Conversational Style / Deborah Tannen -- 26. Suite for Ebony and Phonics / John R. Rickford -- 27. Nuthin' but a G Thang' - Grammar and Language Ideology in Hip Hop Identity / Marcyliena Morgan -- 28. The Whiteness of Nerds - Superstandard English and Racial Markedness / Mary Bucholtz -- 29. Language Ideology and Racial Inequality - Competing Functions of Spanish in an Anglo-Owned Mexican Restaurant / Rusty Barrett -- Gender -- 30. Women's Language' or 'Powerless Language'?' / William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins -- 31. Women Talk Too Much / Janet Holmes -- 32. Power and the Language of Men / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- 33. Performing Gender Identity - Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity / Deborah Cameron -- 34. Norm-Makers, Norm-Breakers - Uses of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community / Elinor Keenan (Ochs) -- Part III. Language As Social Action -- Unit 5. Discourse, Performance, and Ritual -- 35. How to Do Things with Words / J. L. Austin -- 36. Kuna Curing and Magic - Counseling the Spirits' / Joel Sherzer -- 37. Naming Practices and the Power of Words in China / Susan D. Blum -- 38. Amen and Hallelujah Preaching - Discourse Functions in African American Sermons / Cheryl Wharry -- 39. Courtroom Questioning as a Culturally Situated Persuasive Genre of Talk / Yanrong Chang -- 40. Relationships' [change to 'The Internet and Relationships'] / Daniel Miller and Don Slater -- Unit 6. Language Ideology -- 41. Anger, Gender, Language Shift, and the Politics of Revelation in a Papua New Guinean Village / Don Kulick -- 42. Accent, Standard Language Ideology, and Discriminatory Pretext in the Courts / Rosina Lippi-Green -- 43. Orality - Another Language Ideology / Laura Polich -- 44. Let Your Words Be Few - Speaking and Silence in Quaker Ideology / Richard Bauman -- 45. 'To Give Up on Words' - Silence in Western Apache Culture / Keith Basso.

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