Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

by James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi, Zdenek Salzmann

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. Th

Genres: Linguistics, Language

464 pages, Hardcover

Published May 14, 2019

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a seriously interesting read (as far as classroom reading material is concerned). Ponders how culture affects one's language and vice versa, or if language can shape cognition. Linguistic anthropology covers everything from paralanguage (e.g. facial expressions), to dialects, pidgins and creoles, to linguistic gender constructs (e.g., is there such a thing as “women's speech?“), to text-speech and emoji-use.

[Amie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Textbook. Very dry textbook.