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Making sense of language, readings in culture and communication, Susan D. Blum

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Making sense of language

bibliography

Susan D. Blum

readings in culture and communication

Part I: The nature of language. Unit 1. What is language? Smiles, winks, and words / Robbins Burling ; The origins of speech / Charles Hockett ; Nature of the linguistic sign / Ferdinand de Saussure ; How language works / Steven Pinker ; Signing and speaking : competitors, alternatives, or incompatibles / William C. Stokoe ; Why gossip is good for you / Robin Dunbar ; The orality of language / Walter J. Ong ; Aspects of literacy / Brian V. Street and Niko Besnier -- Unit 2. Language and thought. The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language / Benjamin Lee Whorf ; Codifications of reality : lineal and nonlineal / Dorothy Lee ; Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ; Language and mind : let's get the issues straight! / Stephen C. Levinson -- Part II: Language and society. Unit 3. Multilingualism. Societal multilingualism. Chinese, English, Spanish -- and the rest / Tom McArthur ; Triglossia : African privilege or necessity? / Rajmund Ohly ; Bad language --^bad citizens / Edwin L. Battistella -- Individual multilingualism. A linguistic odyssey : one family's experience with language shift and cultural identity in Germany and France / David Antal ; Bilingualism en casa / Ana Celia Zentella ; Conversational code switching / John J. Gumperz ; Language choice, religion, and identity in the Banarsi community / Beth Simon -- Language endangerment and revitalization. Most of the world's languages went extinct / John H. McWhorter ; The future of native languages / Lindsay J. Whaley ; Language loss and revitalization in California : overview / Leanne Hinton -- Unit 4. Language and identity. Region and class. They speak really bad English down South and in New York City / Dennis R. Preston ; Social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores / William Labov ; New York Jewish conversational style / Deborah Tannen --^"Race" and ethnicity. Suite for ebony and phonics / John R. Rickford ; "Nuthin' but a G Thang" : grammar and language ideology in Hip Hop identity / Marcyliena Morgan ; The whiteness of nerds : superstandard English and racial markedness / Mary Bucholtz ; Language ideology and racial inequality: competing functions of Spanish in an Anglo-owned Mexican restaurant / Rusty Barrett -- Gender. "Women's language" or "Powerless language" / William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins ; Women talk too much / Janet Holmes ; Power and the language of men / Scott Fabius Kiesling ; Performing gender identity : young men's talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity / Deborah Cameron ; Norm-makers, norm-breakers : uses of speech by men and women in a Malagasy community / Elinor Keenan (Ochs) --^Part III: Language as social action. Unit 5. Discourse, performance, and ritual. How to do things with words / J.L. Austin ; Kuna curing and magic : counseling the spirits / Joel Sherzer ; Naming practices and the power of words in China / Susan D. Blum ; Amen and hallelujah preaching : discourse functions in African American sermons / Cheryl Wharry ; Courtroom questioning as a culturally situated persuasive genre of talk / Yanrong Chang ; The Internet and relationships / Daniel Miller and Don Slater -- Unit 6. Language ideology. Anger, gender, language shift, and the politics of revelation in a Papua New Guinean village / Don Kulick ; Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in the courts / Rosina Lippi-Green ; Orality : another language ideology / Laura Polich ; Let your words be few: speaking and silence in Quaker ideology / Richard Bauman ; "To give up on words" : silence in western Apache culture / Keith Basso -- Glossary