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 vii

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Notes on Contributors xvi

Part I: Speech Communities, Contact, and Variation 1

1 Speech Community 3
Marcyliena Morgan

2 Registers of Language 23
Asif Agha

3 Language Contact and Contact Languages 46
Paul B. Garrett

4 Codeswitching 73
Kathryn A. Woolard

5 Diversity, Hierarchy, and Modernity in Pacific Island Communities 95
Niko Besnier

6 The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds through North American Indian Languages 121
Marianne Mithun

7 Variation in Sign Languages 141
Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan

Part II: The Performing of Language 167

8 Conversation as a Cultural Activity 169
Elizabeth Keating and Maria Egbert

9 Gesture 197
John B. Haviland

10 Participation 222
Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin

11 Literacy Practices across Learning Contexts 245
Patricia Baquedano-López

12 Narrative Lessons 269
Elinor Ochs

13 Poetry 290
Giorgio Banti and Francesco Giannattasio

14 Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to the Language of Song 321
Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello, and David Samuels

Part III: Achieving Subjectivities and Intersubjectivities through Language 347

15 Language Socialization 349
Don Kulick and Bambi B. Schieffelin

16 Language and Identity 369
Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall

17 Misunderstanding 395
Benjamin Bailey

18 Language and Madness 414
James M. Wilce

19 Language and Religion 431
Webb Keane

Part IV: The Power in Language 449

20 Agency in Language 451
Alessandro Duranti

21 Language and Social Inequality 474
Susan U. Philips

22 Language Ideologies 496
Paul V. Kroskrity

General Bibliography 518

Index 606