Language, Culture, and Society

An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040133637
• Subtopic: Sociolinguistics
• Index: Social Sciences

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Over seven editions, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like these because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This eighth edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer, pressing, and exciting challenges of the twenty-first century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, linguistic diasporas, as well as online and digital ecosystems. New to this edition are a reconceptualization of how linguistics approaches race, gender, and sexuality, with additional chapters and sections on how linguistics benefits archaeology and biological anthropology, as well as considerations of the relationship between language and truth, ethics, and war and politics. It also features enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and cross-references to updated encyclopedias of linguistic anthropology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface to the Eighth Edition
• 1 Introducing Linguistic Anthropology
• 2 Methods of Linguistic Anthropology
• 3 The “Nuts and Bolts” of Linguistic Anthropology I: Language Is Sound
• 4 The “Nuts and Bolts” of Linguistic Anthropology II: Structure of Words and Sentences
• 5 Communicating Nonverbally
• 6 Language and Evolution
• 7 Acquiring and Using Language(s): Life with First Languages, Second Languages, and More
• 8 Language through Time
• 9 Linguistics for Archaeologists
• 10 Languages in Variation and Languages in Contact
• 11 Culture as Cognition, Culture as Categorization: Meaning and Language in the Conceptual World
• 12 Language, Culture, and Thought
• 13 Language, Identity, and Ideology I: Variations in Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality
• 14 Language, Identity, and Ideology II: Variations in Gender
• 15 The Linguistic Anthropology of a Globalized and Digitalized World
• Bibliography
• Index