Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction

William A. Foley

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Preface. Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction. Part II: The Evolution of Language 2. The Evolution of Language. Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind 3. Mind, Universals and the Sensible World. 4. Structuralism. 5. Cognitive Anthropology. 6. Kinship. 7. Color. Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind 8. On Relativist Understanding. 9. Models and Metaphors. 10. Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition. 11. Space. 12. Classifiers. Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking 13. Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples. 14. Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood. 15. Language and Gender. 16. Language and Social Position. 17. Language and Socialisation. 18. Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art. Part VI: Culture and Language Change 19. Contact Induced Language Change. 20. Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering. 21. Literacy. References.Index.

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