General And Amerindian Ethnolinguistics
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General and Amerindian Ethnolinguistics
Author | : Mary Ritchie Key,Henry M. Hoenigswald |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2019-07-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110862799 |
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The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Origin of the Earth and Moon
Author | : Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816521395 |
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This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
Origin of the Earth and Moon
Author | : Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816521395 |
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This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
American Indian Languages
Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2000-09-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780195349832 |
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Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.
The Languages of the first Nations
Author | : Stefan Liedtke |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Anthropological linguistics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015040992425 |
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The Social and Linguistic Heritage of Native Peoples in the Americas
Author | : Laura N. K. van Broekhoven |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : IND:30000109850846 |
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This book brings together ten essays relating to the manner in which postcolonial research is conducted and information put forth on the representation of indigenous cultures in the Americas. Divided into three parts, Part One describes the current state of affairs of postcolonial studies in the North American region; Part Two explores Mesoamerican culture, and Nuu Savi and Zapotec studies in particular; and Part Three looks at the Andean region.
Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology
Author | : Dell H. Hymes |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027286468 |
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Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the two disciplines have partly shared, partly differed in the nature of their materials, their favorite types of problem the personalities of their dominant figures, their relations with other disciplines and intellectual current. The two disciplines have also varied in their interrelation with each other and the society about them. Institutional arrangements have reflected the varying degrees of kinship, kithship, and separation. Such relationships themselves form a topic that is central to a history of linguistic anthropology yet marginal to a self-contained history of linguistics or anthropology as either would be conceived by most authors. There exists not only a subject matter for a history of linguistic anthropology, but also a definite need.
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Author | : Cecil H. Brown |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1999-02-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780195352870 |
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Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors, soap, and Saturday) in the vocabularies of 292 Amerindian languages and dialects spoken from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The first book ever to undertake such a large and systematic cross-language investigation, Brown's work provides fresh insights into general processes of lexical change and development, including those involving language universals and diffusion.