8th Edition
Language, Culture, and Society An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Over seven editions, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like these because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This eighth edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer, pressing, and exciting challenges of the 21st century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, linguistic diasporas, as well as online and digital ecosystems. New to this edition are a reconceptualization of how linguistics approaches race, gender, and sexuality, with additional chapters and sections on how linguistics benefits archaeology and biological anthropology, as well as considerations of the relationship between language and truth, ethics, and war and politics. It also features enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and cross-references to updated encyclopedias of linguistic anthropology.
Preface
1 Introducing Linguistic Anthropology
2 Methods of Linguistic Anthropology
3 “Nuts and Bolts” of Linguistic Anthropology I: Language Is Sound
4 “Nuts and Bolts” Linguistic Anthropology II: Structure of Words and Sentences
5 Communicating Nonverbally
6 The Development and Evolution of Language: Language Birth, Language Growth, and Language Death
7 Acquiring Language(s): Life with First Languages, Second Languages, and More
8 Language Through Time
9 Linguistics for Archaeologists
10 Languages in Variation and Languages in Contact
11 Culture as Cognition, Culture as Categorization: Meaning and Language in the Conceptual World
12 Language, Culture, and Thought
13 Language, Identity, and Ideology I: Variations in Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality
14 Language, Identity, and Ideology II: Variations in Gender and Sexuality
15 Linguistic Anthropology in a Globalized and Digitalized World
Bibliography
Index
Biography
James Stanlaw is Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University. His areas of interest include linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology, language and culture contact, and Japan and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact.
Nobuko Adachi is Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University. Adachi’s research interests focus on sociolinguistics, Japanese immigration in South America, transnationalism, globalization, diasporas, and race and ethnic identity. She is the author of Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune: Children of Nature.
"Language, Culture, and Society provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamental subfields of linguistic anthropology. The rich variety of examples presented from languages spoken all over the globe allows students to enter the world of working linguistic anthropologists."―Marilyn S. Manley, Rowan University
"A major introduction and overview to the (reborn) field of linguistic anthropology. The book is systematic and very accessible. It covers most of what is relevant in the field, for which it certainly is to be highly recommended."―Applied Linguistics
"This is exactly what an introduction to linguistic anthropology should be. Touching on all the major components of the field, this accessible text demonstrates what the systematic study of language can tell us about human culture, history, and cognition.”—Caleb Everett, University of Miami
"This new edition is not a simple revision, but a re-visioning of introductory linguistic anthropology. Stanlaw and Adachi begin with basic linguistic concepts and take the reader through contemporary problems in linguistic anthropology... using examples from classic and recent research. This book is accessible to any college student interested in linguistic anthropology.”—Douglas W. Hume, Northern Kentucky University
