Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction

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.