A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

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.

Synopsis of Contents. Preface. Acknowledgments. Notes on Contributors. Part I: Speech Communities, Contact, and Variation. 1. Speech Community. (Marcyliena Morgan). 2. Registers of Language. (Asif Agha). 3. Language Contact And Contact Languages. (Paul B. Garrett). 4. Codeswitching (Kathryn A. Woolard). 5. Diversity, Hierarchy and Modernity in Pacific Island Communities. (Niko Besnier). 6. The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds Through North American Indian Languages. (Marianne Mithun). 7. Variation In Sign Languages. (Barbara Lemaster and Leila Monaghan). Part II: The Performing of Language. 8. Conversation as a Cultural Activity. (Elizabeth Keating and Maria Egbert). 9. Gesture. (John B. Haviland). 10. Participation. (Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin). 11. Literacy Practices Across Learning Contexts. (Patricia Baquedano-Lopez). 12. Narrative Lessons.Elinor Ochs). 13. Poetry. (Giorgio Banti and Francesco Giannattasio). 14. Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to the Language of Song. (Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello, and David Samuels). Part III: Achieving Subjectivities and Intersubjectivities Through Language. 15. Language Socialization. (Don Kulick and Bambi B. Schieffelin). 16. Language And Identity. (Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall). 17. Misunderstanding. (Benjamin Bailey). 18. Language And Madness. (James M. Wilce). 19. Language And Religion. (Webb Keane). Part IV: The Power In Language. 20. Agency In Language. (Alessandro Duranti). 21. Language and Social Inequality. (Susan U. Philips). 22. Language Ideologies (Paul V. Kroskrity). General Bibliography. Index.