Key Terms in Language & Culture

Download or read book Key Terms in Language & Culture written by Alessandro Duranti and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-01-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Terms in Language and Culture is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, and covering the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. Together these essays provide a lexicon of language from an anthropological perspective. Each essay includes a brief description of a key concept, the issues associated with the concept, and the major contributions to its study. There is a set of suggested readings at the end of each essay that provides readers with a good starting point for a further study.