Each section includes a brief introductory statement, sets of guiding questions, and
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"Alessandro Duranti has succeeded in compiling an excellent reader that many instructors and students will find useful as an introduction to key works in linguistic anthropology. Leaders in the theory and practice of contemporary linguistic anthropology are well represented, and all of the articles are excellent; indeed, most are recognized as contemporary "classics" in the field. This reader is an excellent addition to the growing library of readers in linguistic anthropology and a valuable new resource for both students and teachers." (Current Anthropology [from 1st edition]) "Many of the articles included...are examples of highly innovative scholarly work on issues of language related to culture. It provides an excellent (and long overdue) discussion of terminology, American lingustic anthropology's development within Cultural Anthropology, its subsequent drift away from anthropology towards an independent discipline increasingly focused on theoretical anthropologists in the late 1960s, and its reestablishment as a subfield of anthropology in the 1980s-90s. As a textbook this reader makes a very useful teaching aid, as a source book it provides valuable insights into the discipline of linguistic anthropology." (Linguist List)
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments to the Second Edition viii
Preface to the Second Edition ix
Linguistic Anthropology: History, Ideas, and Issues 1
Alessandro Duranti
Part I Ideal and Real Speech Communities 61
Introduction 63
1 The Speech Community 66
John J. Gumperz
2 The African-American Speech Community: Reality and Sociolinguists 74
Marcyliena Morgan
3 The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities 93
Debra Spitulnik
4 Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters 114
Benjamin Bailey
5 The Idealised Native Speaker, Reified Ethnicities, and Classroom Realities 137
Constant Leung, Roxy Harris, and Ben Rampton
Part II The Performance of Language: Events, Genres, and Narratives 151
Introduction 153
6 Ways of Speaking 158
Dell Hymes
7 Formality and Informality in Communicative Events 172
Judith T. Irvine
8 Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings 188
Alessandro Duranti
9 Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power 214
Charles L. Briggs and Richard Bauman
10 Narrating the Political Self in a Campaign for US Congress 245
Alessandro Duranti
11 Hip Hop Nation Language 272
H. Samy Alim
Part III Language Socialization and Literacy Practices 291
Introduction 293
12 Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications 296
Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin
13 Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom 329
Susan U. Philips
14 What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School 343
Shirley Brice Heath
15 Creating Social Identities through Doctrina Narratives 364
Patricia Baquedano-López
Part IV the Power of Language 379
Introduction 381
16 Arizona Tewa Kiva Speech as a Manifestation of a Dominant Language Ideology 386
Paul V. Kroskrity
17 Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation 402
Judith T. Irvine and Susan Gal
18 The ‘‘Father Knows Best’’ Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives 435
Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor
19 Professional Vision 452
Charles Goodwin
20 Language, Race, and White Public Space 479
Jane H. Hill
21 No 493
Don Kulick
Index 504
