Susan D. Blum
* = Readings that are new to this edition
Preface
Introduction to the revised edition
Part I: The Nature of Language
Unit 1: What Is Language?
1. Eduardo Kohn, The Open Whole *
2. Daniel Chandler, Models of the Sign *
3. Charles Hockett, The Origin of Speech
4.
Jeffrey V. Peterson, Semiotic Communication in Nonhumans Primates *
Unit 2: Language and Thought
5. Benjamin Lee Whorf, The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language
6. John A. Lucy, Through the Window *
7. Stephen C. Levinson, Language and Mind: Let's Get the Issues
Straight!
Unit 3: Language Socialization
8. Shirley Brice Heath, What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and at School
9. Patricia M. Clancy, The Acquisition of Communicative Style in Japanese *
10. Peggy J. Miller and Douglas E. Sperry, Déjà vu: The Continuing
Misrecognition of Low-Income Children's Verbal Abilities *
11. Kathleen C. Riley, Learning to Exchange Food and Talk in the Marquesas *
Unit 4: (New) Media
12. Plato, Phaedrus *
13. Laura R. Graham, Quoting Mario Juruna: Linguistic Imagery and the Transformation of Indigenous Voice
in the Brazilian Print Press *
14. dana boyd, It's Complicated. Introduction *
15. Thomas W. Cooper, Of Scripts and Scriptures: Why Plain People Perpetuate a Media Fast *
16. Lee Skallerup Bessette, On Reading *
Part II: Language as Social Action
Unit 5: Discourse and
Performance
17. John L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words
18. Mikhail Bakhtin, Discourse in the Novel
19. Susan D. Blum, Naming Practices and the Power of Words in China
20. Rupert Stasch, Word Avoidance as a Relation-Making Act: A Paradigm for Analysis of Name Utterance Taboos
*
Unit 6: Language Ideologies
21. Ethel M. Albert, "Rhetoric," "Logic," and "Poetics" among the Burundi: Cultural Patterning of Speech Behavior *
22. Benjamin Bailey, Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters
23. Don Kulick, Animal Communicators *
24. Keith
Basso, "To Give Up on Words": Silence in Western Apache Culture
Unit 7: Verbal Art, Affect, Embodiment
25. Roger D. Abrahams, Joking: The Training of the Man-of-Words in Talking Broad *
26. Alex E. Chávez, So You Got Screwed?: Humor, U.S.-Mexico Migration, and the Embodied Poetics of
Transgression *
Part III: Language and Society
Unit 8: Indexing Identity
Region and Class
27. Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes, Language Evolution or Dying Traditions? The State of American Dialects *
28. William Labov, The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City
Department Stores?
29. Deborah Tannen, New York Jewish Conversational Style
"Race" and Ethnicity
30. H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman, "Nah, We Straight": Black Language and America's First Black President *
31. Donald L. Rubin, Nonlanguage Factors Affecting Undergraduates'
Judgments of Nonnative English-Speaking Teaching Assistants *
32. John Baugh, Linguistic Profiling *
Gender and Sexuality
33. William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins, "Women's Language" or "Powerless Language"?
34. Kira Hall, "Unnatural" Gender in Hindi
35. Deborah Cameron, Just
Don't Do It *
Generation
36. Scott F. Kiesling, Dude
37. Penelope Eckert, Where Does the Social Stop? *
38. Tadeusz Lewandawski, Uptalk, Vocal Fry and, Like, Totally Slang: Assessing Stylistic Trends in American Speech *
39. Gretchen McCulloch, Move over Shakespeare: Teen Girls
are the Real Language Disruptors *
Unit 10: Diversity and Complexity
Societal Multilingualism
40. Shifra Kisch, Al-Sayyid: A Sociolinguistic Sketch *
41. Jan Blommaert and Ben Rampton, Language and Superdiversity *
42. Lionel Wee, Language Politics and Global City *
43. Flora
Veit-Wild, 'Zimbolicious' -The Creative Potential of Linguistic Innovation: The Case of Shona-English in Zimbabwe *
44. Tom McArthur, Chinese, English, Spanish - and the Rest
45. K. David Harrison, Language Endangerment among the Tofa *
Individual Multilingualism
46. Ana Celia
Zentella, Bilingualism en casa
47. Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez, Serious Games: Code-Switching and Gendered Identities in Moroccan Immigrant Girls' Pretend Play
48. Aneta Pavlenko, Bilingual Selves *
Coda: Action in the World
49. Betsy Rymes and Andrea R. Leone, Citizen
Sociolinguistics: A New Media Methodology for Understanding Language and Social Life
Glossary
Index
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Susan D. Blum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of several books, including "I Love Learning: I Hate School": An Anthropology of College (2016) and My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (2009).
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