Approaches to Language and Culture

Preface
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Part I: Outlining anthropological linguistics
1 Studying the relationship of language and culture: Scope and directions
Part II: Fields of research
2 Language acquisition and language socialization
3 Language endangerment and reclamation
4 Emerging languages and the creation of new communicative styles
5 Language ideologies and social identities
6 Conversational organization and genre
7 Gesture, sign languages and multimodality
8 On ritual speech: Epistemologies, history, and the social order
9 The unspoken
10 Social indexicality
11 Time: Sociocultural structuring beyond the spatialization paradigm
12 Emotional language: A brief history of recent research
Part III: Areal perspectives
13 Research on language and culture in Africa
14 Native North America: Notes towards a dialogical ethnopoetics
15 Perspectivism through language: A view from Amazonia
16 Recent research on language and culture in Australia and Oceania
17 Language and culture in Mainland Southeast Asia
18 Research on language and culture in Europe
Part IV: Outlook
19 The language-culture dimension: A space for challenges and opportunities
About the contributors
Index