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Oxford University Press - The Integration Of Language And Society A Cross - Linguistic Typology - Hardcover
Oxford University Press - The Integration Of Language And Society A Cross - Linguistic Typology - Hardcover
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Description: The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers relationships with each other their beliefs and their ways of viewing the world as well as other aspects of their social environment their means of subsistence and even geographical features of the areas in which the language is spoken. The chapters in this book draw on data from the languages of Australia and New Guinea (Dyirbal and Idi) South America (Chamacoco Ayoreo Murui and Tariana) Asia (Japanese Brokpa and Dzongkha) and Africa (Iraqw) to examine the ways in which the grammar of a language relates to societal practices. The volume begins with a general introduction that summarizes the main issues relevant to how language and societies are integrated before later chapters explore specific points of integration in a range of diverse languages including honorifics genders and classifiers possessives evidentiality comparatives and demonstratives. The findings advance our understanding of how non - linguistic traits have their correlates in language and how these change when society changes. The volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of typology cultural and linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics and social sciences more widely.
Title: The Integration Of Language And Society A Cross - Linguistic Typology
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192845924
Pages: 404 Pages
Publication Date: 2/28/2022
Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
Description: The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers relationships with each other their beliefs and their ways of viewing the world as well as other aspects of their social environment their means of subsistence and even geographical features of the areas in which the language is spoken. The chapters in this book draw on data from the languages of Australia and New Guinea (Dyirbal and Idi) South America (Chamacoco Ayoreo Murui and Tariana) Asia (Japanese Brokpa and Dzongkha) and Africa (Iraqw) to examine the ways in which the grammar of a language relates to societal practices. The volume begins with a general introduction that summarizes the main issues relevant to how language and societies are integrated before later chapters explore specific points of integration in a range of diverse languages including honorifics genders and classifiers possessives evidentiality comparatives and demonstratives. The findings advance our understanding of how non - linguistic traits have their correlates in language and how these change when society changes. The volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of typology cultural and linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics and social sciences more widely.
Title: The Integration Of Language And Society A Cross - Linguistic Typology
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192845924
Pages: 404 Pages
Publication Date: 2/28/2022
Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography