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Basic Color Terms
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cognitive categorisation
Costly Signaling Theory
cross-cultural language cognition
Dark Matter
El Ik
embodiment in communication
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Illocutionary Statement
Irian Jaya
Knowledge Acquisition
language
Language Ideology
Lingua Franca
linguistic anthropology
Native English Language Speakers
Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Papua
Ritual Error
ritual language practices
Scots Language
Scottish Gaelic
social practice
sociocultual anthropology
sociocultural theory
Southern Highlands Province
Strath Earn
Tok Pisin
Ulster Scots Agency
Ulster Scots Language
Vice Versa
West Papua
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781350059818
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground for understanding language in culture, which helps in turn to understand how it enables us to adapt to the world of lived material experience. Written in an accessible style and drawing on an extensive corpus of primary field research from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Japan, Taiwan, Scotland, and Ireland, Strathern and Stewart present a world anthropology which links together European, North American, and Asia-Pacific approaches to the topic. Students and scholars alike of sociocultual anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and linguistics will benefit from this engaging work on how the various components of our culture are informed and shaped through language.
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
