Making sense of language
Subtitle: readings in culture and communication
By: Susan D. Blum
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780199840922
Subjects: Kommunikation; Sprache; Language and languages; Kultur
Description: Chosen for their accessibility and diversity, the readings in Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, Second Edition, engage students in thinking about the ability to use language - perhaps the most uniquely human of all our characteristics - and how this skill relates to both classical theories of language and contemporary life. Instead of taking an ideological stance on these issues, the text presents a range of theoretical perspectives and bolsters them with pedagogical support, including chapter introductions; critical-thinking, reading, and application questions; and a comprehensive glossary. Weaving in questions of power, gender, identity, ritual, interaction, and the nature of language throughout, the second edition of Making Sense of Language is an exemplary text for courses in language and culture and linguistic anthropology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The nature of language. Unit 1: What is language. Smiles, winks, and words / Robbins Burling ; Nature of the linguistic sign / Ferdinand de Saussure; title: Unit 2: Language origins. The origin of speech / Charles Hockett ; Signing and speaking : competitors, alternatives, or incompatibles? / William C. Stokoe ; Symbol and structure : a comprehensive framework for language evolution / Derek Bickerton; title: Unit 3: Language and thought. The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language / Benjamin Lee Whorf ; Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ; Language and mind : let's get the issues straight! / Stephen C. Levinson; title: Unit 4: Language socialization. Language acquisition and socialization : three developmental stories and their implications / Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin ; What no bedtime story means : narrative skills at home and at school / Shirley Brice Heath ; The pragmatics of reading prayers : learning the act of contrition in Spanish-based religious education classes (doctrina) / Patricia Baquedano-Lopez; title: Unit 5: (New) media. What Is writing? / John DeFrancis ; How the brain adapted itself to read : the first writing systems / Maryanne Wolf ; The peek-a-boo world / Neil Postman ; The quest for authentic connection / John Durham Peters ; Why all the fuss? / David Crystal ; Literacies in the lives of urban youth / Jabari Mahiri ; Homo somnians : humanity in the age of the internet / Marshall T. Poe.; title: pt. II. Language and society. Unit 6: Multilingualism. Societal multilingulism. Chinese, English, Spanish; title: and the rest / Tom McArthur ; Bad language : bad citizens / Edwin L. Battistella ; Language education policy-Arabic speaking countries / Y. Suleiman ; The language ecology of Singapore / Anthea Fraser Gupta; title: Individual multilingulism. Bilingualism en casa / Ana Celia Zentella ; Serious games : code-switching and gendered identities in Moroccan immigrant girls' pretend play / Inmaculada M. Garcia-Sanchez; title: Language endangerment and revitalization. Most of the world's languages went extinct / John McWhorter ; Indigenous language endangerment and the unfinished business of nation states / Donna Patrick ; Francʹais, Acadien, Acadjonne : competing discourses on language preservation along the shores of the Baie Sainte-Marie / Annette Boudreau and Lise Dubois ; Stop, revive, survive : lessons from the Hebrew revival applicable to the reclamation, maintenance and empowerment of Aboriginal languages and cultures / Ghil'ad Zuckermann and Michael Walsh.; title: Unit 7: Region and class. The social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores / William Labov ; New York Jewish conversational style / Deborah Tannen ; Regional dialects / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.; title: "Race" and ethnicity. Suite for ebony and phonics / John R. Rickford ; Hip hop nation language / H. Samy Alim ; Aria / Richard Rodriguez; title: Gender. "Women's language" or "Powerless language"? / William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins ; Power and the language of men / Scott Fabius Kiesling ; "Unnatural" gender in Hindi / Kira Hall ; Language, socialization, and silence in Gay adolescence / William Leap ; Like and language ideology : disentangling fact from fiction / Alexandra D'Arcy ; Dude / Scott F. Kiesling.; title: pt. III. Language as social action. Unit 8: Discourse, performance, and ritual. How to do things with words / J.L. Austen ; Discourse in the novel / Mikhail Bakhtin ; Naming practices and the power of words in China / Susan D. Blum ; Rewritten rites : language and social relations in traditional and contemporary funerals / Guy Cook and Tony Walter ; Narrative embodiments : enclaves of the self in the realm of medicine / Katharine Young; title: Unit 9: Language ideology. Communication of respect in interethnic service encounters / Benjamin Bailey ; On mother and other tongues : sociolinguistics, schools, and language ideology in Northern India / Chaise LaDousa; title: "To give up on words" : silence in Western Apache culture / Keith Basso; title: Glossary.