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Language and Social Identity
Richard K. Blot
Foreword by Charles Briggs
Book Code: H783
ISBN: 0-89789-783-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-783-9
320 pages, figures, maps
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2003
List Price: $91.95 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 X 9
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Description: Whenever we open our mouths to speak we provide those who hear us, chosen interlocutors or mere bystanders, with a wealth of data, linguistic clues others use to position us within a specific social strata. Our particular uses of language mark us geographically, ethnically, by age or sex, and especially in stratified societies, according to class or caste. Linguists, anthropologists, and others concerned with the formal study of the social uses and functions of language are concerned with documenting the implications of such judging on the lives of various peoples around the world and among the classes within their own societies. What linguistic features of speech are used to form stereotypical impressions about the social identity (as well as the character) of others? How are linguistic features linked to ethnicity, to gender, to race, and to class? This collection of papers by researchers in cultural and linguistic anthropology examine these concepts as well as many others.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Charles Briggs
  • Editor's Introduction by Richard K. Blot
  • Language and Indians' Place in Chiapas, Mexico: A Testimony from the Tzotzil Maya by Gary H. Gossen
  • The Deficits of History: Terms of Violence in an Arapaco Myth Complex from the Brazilian Northwest Amazon by Janet M. Chernela and Eric Leed
  • Giving Violence to the Hill Spirit: Mayan Visionary Testimony in Southern Belize by Jerry Kelly
  • "We Don't Speak Catalan Because We Are Marginalized": Ethnic and Class Connotations of Language in Barcelona by Kathryn Woolard
  • The Politics of Representation: Class and Ethnic Identities in Cochabamba, Bolivia by Maria Lagos
  • The Narrative Construction of E'Napa Ethnicity by Maria Eugenia Villalon
  • Ebonics, Language and Power by Mike Long
  • Containing Language Difference: Advertising in Hispanic Magazine by Bonnie Urcuioli
  • The Other Tongue, the Other Voice: Language and Gender in the French Caribbean by Ellen Schnepel
  • Reclaiming Traditions, Remaking Community: Politics, Language, and Place among the Tolowa of Northwest California by James Collins
  • "Word-Sound-Power": Language, Social Identity, and the Worldview of Rastafari by John W. Pulis
  • Passionate Speech and Literate Talk in Grenada by George Mentore
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2003042887
LCC Class: P40
Dewey Class: 306
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