Language and Culture in Dialogue

ISBN-13: 9781350059818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 152 str.

Andrew Strathern; Pamela J. Stewart

Opis

In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular” and “culture in general” by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world.

Spis treści

About the AuthorsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Language as Cultural Practice2. Origins3. Language, Practice, and Embodiment4. Themes in Language Practice5. Cognition and Categories: The Work of Roy Ellen6. Cognition and Categories: The Work of Anna Wierzbicka7. Cognitive Science and Language8. Language and Ritual: The Merina and the Melpa9. Language and Ritual: Maring and Melpa10. Language and Power11. Language, Literacy, and Change: Scots and Tok Pisin12. Excursions, Translations, and ExplorationsReferencesIndex

O autorze

Andrew J. Strathern is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USAPamela J. Stewart is Senior Research Associate at the the University of Pittsburgh, USA