Speech Communities: Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

Half title page......Page 2
Key topics in linguistic anthropology......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Transcription Conventions......Page 9
1.1 Speech communities......Page 10
1.2 Early definitions of speech community......Page 11
1.3 Language, discourse and representation......Page 13
1.4 Retrieving the speech community......Page 15
1.5 Sociolinguistics and social actors......Page 16
1.6 Language ideology......Page 18
1.7 Conclusion......Page 19
2.1 Imagined speech communities and contact zones......Page 23
2.2 Language and symbols: indexing ideologies......Page 26
2.3 Language, identity and stereotype......Page 29
2.4 Representation, knowledge and diversity......Page 30
2.5 Style and styling in speech communities......Page 32
2.6 Social networking......Page 33
2.7 Conclusion......Page 34
3.1 Communicative competence and contextualization cues......Page 37
3.2 Socialization into speech communities......Page 38
3.3 Speech events......Page 40
3.4 Verbal genres......Page 42
3.5 Face-to-face interactions......Page 43
3.6 Greetings......Page 44
3.7 Conclusion......Page 46
4.1 Contact and the African American speech community......Page 48
4.2 Language ideology of the African American speech community......Page 50
4.3 Social face and forms of speech......Page 53
4.4 Indirectness......Page 54
4.5 Conclusion......Page 58
5.1 The Hiphop speech community......Page 61
5.2 Youth lingua franca......Page 63
5.3 The WORD: hiphop philosophy and ideology......Page 65
5.4 Negotiating norms and values: the real hiphop speech community?......Page 68
5.5 Conclusion......Page 71
6.1 Women and place......Page 74
6.2 Language and gender in the US......Page 76
6.3 The language of respectability: conservative and innovative......Page 77
6.4 Discourse, narrative and verbal genres......Page 78
6.5 Conclusion......Page 82
7.1 Identifying speech communities......Page 85
7.2 Hand-held speech communities......Page 86
7.3 Intentionality and social identity in cyberspace......Page 88
7.4 Imagining and translating space and place......Page 90
7.5 Language socialization and socializing in social networks......Page 92
7.6 Conclusion......Page 94
8.1 Language standards......Page 97
8.2 Language policy: power and control in speech communities......Page 98
8.3 Multilingualism, nationalism and racism......Page 100
8.4 Language policy and fragmented speech communities......Page 102
8.5 Conclusion......Page 107
9.1 Performativity: between politeness and social face......Page 111
9.2 Learning to play with irony......Page 113
9.3 Performing identity......Page 115
9.4 Humor and satire......Page 117
9.5 Conclusion......Page 120
10.1 The global speech community......Page 123
10.2 Speech communities in conflict......Page 124
10.3 Conclusion......Page 128
Bibliography......Page 131
Index......Page 164