TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agha,Asif
TI  - Language and social relations
T2  - Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language
SN  - 0521571766
AV  - P40 .A35 2007
U1  - 306.44 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Interpersonal communication
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2007295804-b.html
ER  -