Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology
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- ISBN 9781032543840
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology is an extensive and authoritative collection of topical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives in the broad field of linguistic anthropology. Now in its second edition, it has been fully updated to address current and pressing global challenges and inspire action.
Carefully edited by Bonvillain and García-Sánchez, this volume advances readers’ understanding of how language intersects with cognitive processes and social identities of gender, race, sexual orientation, and neurodiversity. Across twenty-nine chapters, contributors outline the foundations and key issues of linguistic anthropology, particularly language ideologies, while exploring practical approaches to research. Drawing from their research experience in universities across North America and abroad, they particularly emphasise ways in which theories and methodologies can contribute to social action and social justice movements on environmental and transitional justice, immigration and multilingualism, and Indigenous language revitalization or re-awakening.
This handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of applied and linguistic anthropology.
Nancy Bonvillain is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics as well as Director of Tutoring and Writing Center at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. the editor of the first edition of The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (Routledge, 2014). Her research focuses on the Mohawk language and other Native American languages. A prolific author, she has published textbooks on cultural anthropology, language and culture, gender studies, and Native Nations, as well as several ethnographies of Native American First Nations.
Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez is Professor and Associate Director at the Center for the Study of International Migration, University of California, USA. Her research offers a critical dialogue between educational ethnography, linguistic anthropology, and migration studies, with a focus on the schooling of immigrant children and youth. She is the author of several journal and book publications and has co-edited Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and School: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups (Routledge, 2019).
