Nurturing Language
eBook - ePub

Nurturing Language

Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nurturing Language

Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context

About this book

This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.

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Information

Year
2022
Print ISBN
9783111522722
eBook ISBN
9783110727142
Edition
1
Subtopic
Idiomas

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. List of abbreviations
  6.  Introduction
  7. 2 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive anthropology
  8. 3 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive linguistics
  9. 4 Spatial orientation
  10. 5 Language and habitual thought
  11. 6 Onomastics
  12. 7 The ethnography of communication
  13. 8 The contribution of interactional sociolinguistics
  14. 9 Emotions and the sounds of silence in a cross-cultural perspective
  15. 10 Cultural conceptions of face
  16. 11 Conversation analysis
  17. 12 Non-verbal communication
  18. Subject index
  19. Language index