Nancy Bonvillain

Language, Culture, and Communication

The Meaning of Messages

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages, Language, Culture and Communication, Eight Edition, explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• 8th edition
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781538114797
• ISBN-10: 1538114798
• Artikelnr.: 54616914

Autorenporträt

Nancy Bonvillain is professor of anthropology and linguistics at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She is the author of over twenty books on language, culture, and gender, including a series on Native American peoples. In her field work she studied the Mohawk and Navajo, and she has published a grammar and dictionary of the Akwesasne dialect of Mohawk. She received her PhD from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia University, The New School, SUNY Purchase and Stonybrook, and Sarah Lawrence College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Form of
the Message Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Meaning Chapter 4: Contextual
Components: Outline of an Ethnography of Communication Chapter 5:
Communicative Interactions Chapter 6: Digital Communications and Signed
Languages Chapter 7: Learning Language Chapter 8: The Acquisition of
Communicate Competence Chapter 9: Societal Segmentation and Linguistic
Variation: Class and Race Chapter 10: Language and Gender Chapter 11:
Multilingual Nations Chapter 12: Multilingual Communities Chapter 13:
Language and Institutional Encounters Summary References Index