Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language

ISBN-13: 9781009198844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 250 str.

Michael (University of Chicago) Silverstein

Opis

Shows how identities, cultural categories and social groupings are forged semiotically, via dynamic, more or less subtle discursive rituals.

Recenzje

'With his signature searing clarity and punning wit, Michael Silverstein at long last lays out in print what decades of students have heard - the detailed, layered, and at once remarkably robust and subtle semiotic mechanisms through which we co-construct our worlds, or wreck them, hold them in a precarious order or teeter off course.' Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University

Spis treści

List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Getting – and getting across – the message; Lecture 1: Text; Lecture 2: Event; Lecture 3: Context; Lecture 4: Enregisterment; Lecture 5: Variation; Lecture 6: Categoriality; Lecture 7: Relativity; Lecture 8: Knowledge; Editorial acknowledgments; References; Index.