Key Terms in Language and Culture

1. Acquisition: Susan Ervin-Tripp.

2. Act: Marina Sbisà.

3. Agency: Laura M. Ahearn.

4. Body: Mariella Pandolfi.

5. Brain: John Schumann.

6. Category: Ward H. Goodenough.

7. Codes: Celso Alvarez-Caccamo.

8. Color: Paul Kay.

9. Community: Marcyliena H. Morgan.

10. Competence: Jack Sidnell.

11. Conflict: Marco Jacquemet.

12. Contact: Christine Jourdan.

13. Control: Allen D. Grimshaw.

14. Crossing: Ben Rampton.

15. Deaf: Carol Padden.

16. Dreams: Laura R. Graham.

17. Endangered: Robert E. Moore.

18. Evolution: Kathleen R. Gibson.

19. Expert: Aaron Cicourel.

20. Functions: Michael Silverstein.

21. Gender: Mary Bucholtz.

22. Genre: Richard Bauman.

23. Gesture: John B. Haviland.

24. Grammar: John W. DuBois.

25. Healing: James Wilce.

26. Heteroglossia: Vyacheslav Ivanov.

27. Humor: William O. Beeman.

28. Iconicity: Bruce Mannheim.

29. Identity: Paul V. Kroskrity.

30. Ideology: Joseph Errington.

40. Ideophone: Dennis Tedlock.

41. Improvisation: R. Keith Sawyer.

42. Indexicality: William F. Hanks.

43. Individual: Barbara Johnstone.

44. Inference: John J. Gumperz.

45. Intentionality: Alessandro Duranti.

46. Interview: Charles Briggs.

47. Literacy: Niko Besnier.

48. Maxim: Stephen C. Levinson.

49. Media: Debra Spitulnik.

50. Metaphor: Bran Ben-Amos.

51. Meter: Giorgio Banti.

52. Music: Steven Feld & Aaron Fox.

53. Names: Betsy Rymes.

54. Narrative: Harriet E. Manelis Klein.

55. Orality: Alan Rumsey.

56. Oratory: Joel Kuipers.

57. Participation: Marjorie H. Goodwin.

58. Particles: Haruko M. Cook.

59. Performativity: Kira Hall.

60. Plagiarism: Ron Scollon.

61. Poetry: Dell Hymes.

62. Power: Susan Philips.

63. Prayer: Patricia Baquedano-Lopez.

64. Prophecy: John Leavitt.

65. Proverb: Kwesi Yankah.

66. Reconstruction: Victor Golla.

67. Reflexivity: John A. Lucy.

68. Register: Asif Agha.

69. Relativity: Alessandro Duranti.

70. Repetition: Penelope Brown.

71. Signing: Leila Monaghan.

72. Socialization: Elinor Ochs.

73. Space: Elizabeth Keating.

74. Style: Norma Mendoza-Denton.

75. Switching: Benjamin Bailey.

76. Syncretism: Jane H. Hill.

77. Theater: Ingjerd Hoëm.

78. Translation: Regna Darnell.

79. Truth: Susan D. Blum.

80. Turn: Sally Jacoby.

81. Variation: John Baugh.

82. Vision: Charles Goodwin.

83. Voice: Webb Keane.

84. Writing: Antonio Perri.