Full Description
This third edition of Language, Culture, and Society has profited from the comments of several instructors who have been using the text successfully during the past several years. In his revisions, Zdenek Salzmann has not only updated the text but has made it even more user-friendly. Two of the original chapters have been subdivided, the text has been enriched by the inclusion of additional examples, and the discussions of some of the more abstract topics have been edited with the student and the layperson in mind. With the growing emphasis in anthropology on applications of anthropological findings, references to the uses of linguistic anthropology are included throughout the book, and the final chapter is devoted solely to applications. }This third edition of Language, Culture, and Society has profited from the comments of several instructors who have been using the text successfully during the past several years. In his revisions, Zdenek Salzmann has not only updated the text but has made it even more user-friendly.Two of the original chapters have been subdivided, the text has been enriched by the inclusion of additional examples, and the discussions of some of the more abstract topics have been edited with the student and the layperson in mind. With the growing emphasis in anthropology on applications of anthropological findings, references to the uses of linguistic anthropology are included throughout the book, and the final chapter is devoted solely to applications. Because anthropology stresses the holistic view, the tendency to integrate the data from all subfields of anthropology is evident throughout the book. }
Contents
Preface to the Third Edition Introducing Linguistic Anthropology Anthropology, Linguistics, and Linguistic Anthropology; The Fieldwork Component; The Beginnings of Modern Linguistic Anthropology; Modern Myths Concerning Languages; Summary and Conclusions; Suggestions for Further Reading; Question for Discussion; Communication and Speech Communication and Its Channels; Communication Among Social Insects; Communication Among Nonhuman Primates and Other Vertebrates; Design Features of Language; Language Acquisition; Language and the Brain; Summary and Conclusions; Suggestions for Further Reading; Questions for Discussion; Language and Culture The Stimulus of Sapir's Writings; The Whorf Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism; Language, Culture, and Worldview: A Relationship Reconsidered; Ethnoscience; Summary and Conclusions; Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading; Questions for Discussion; The Structure of Language: Phonology The Anatomy and Physiology of Speech; Articulation of Speech Sounds; Prosodic Features; From Phones to Phonemes; Phonemes of English; Comparative Phonology; Ethics and Emics; Summary and Conclusions; Chapter Appendix: Distinctive Features and Phonological Rules; Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading, Problems; Structure of Words and Sentences Morphemes and Allomorphs; Morphological Processes; Morphophonemics; Syntax: The Sentence Patterns; Semantics; Transformational-generative Grammar; Summary and Conclusions; Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading, Problems; Language Origins Early Theories; When Does a Communication System Become Language?; Milestones in Human Evolution; Blending and Duality of Patterning; Monogenesis Versus Polygenesis; Estimating the Age of Language: Linguistic Considerations; Estimating the Age of Language: View from Cultural Prehistory; Evidence from Anatomy; The Gestural Theory of Language Origin; Summary and Conclusions; Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading; Question for Discussion; Language Through Time Language Changes: English a Thousand Years Ago; Internal and External Changes; How and Why Sound Changes Occur; Reconstructing Protolanguages; Reconstructing the Ancestral Homeland; Reconstructing a Protoculture; Dati
