Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195105621 ISBN 13: 9780195105629

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

"Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather, they link language to identity, power, aesthetics, morality and epistemology. Through such linkages, language ideologies underpin not only linguistic form and use, but also significant social institutions and fundamental notions of person and community. The essays in this new book examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of societies around the world. Contributors focus on how such defining activity organizes language use as well as institutions such as religious ritual, gender relations, the nation-state, schooling, and law. This timely volume will be the first collection of work to appear in this rapidly growing field, which effectively bridges linguistic and social theory.

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About the Author

Bambi B. Schieffelin is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Kathryn A. Woolard teaches at the University of California at San Diego, where she is a Professor of Linguistics. Paul Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195105621
• ISBN 13: 9780195105629
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Schieffelin Bambi B., Woolard Kathryn A., Kroskrity Paul V.