Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages

Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages

by Nancy Bonvillain Bard College at Simon's Rock
Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages

Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages

by Nancy Bonvillain Bard College at Simon's Rock

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Overview

Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages, Language, Culture and Communication, Eight Edition, explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538114803
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 03/20/2019
Edition description: Eighth Edition
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Nancy Bonvillain is professor of anthropology and linguistics at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She is the author of over twenty books on language, culture, and gender, including a series on Native American peoples. In her field work she studied the Mohawk and Navajo, and she has published a grammar and dictionary of the Akwesasne dialect of Mohawk. She received her PhD from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia University, The New School, SUNY Purchase and Stonybrook, and Sarah Lawrence College.

Table of Contents

Preface About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Form of the Message Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Meaning Chapter 4: Contextual Components: Outline of an Ethnography of Communication Chapter 5: Communicative Interactions Chapter 6: Digital Communications and Signed Languages Chapter 7: Learning Language Chapter 8: The Acquisition of Communicate Competence Chapter 9: Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation: Class and Race Chapter 10: Language and Gender Chapter 11: Multilingual Nations Chapter 12: Multilingual Communities Chapter 13: Language and Institutional Encounters Summary References Index
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