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Nurturing Language : Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] ; 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XXVI, 382 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110727029
  • 9783110727142
  • 9783110726633
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44096 23/eng/20230404
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of pictures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive anthropology -- 3 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive linguistics -- 4 Spatial orientation -- 5 Language and habitual thought -- 6 Onomastics -- 7 The ethnography of communication -- 8 The contribution of interactional sociolinguistics -- 9 Emotions and the sounds of silence in a cross-cultural perspective -- 10 Cultural conceptions of face -- 11 Conversation analysis -- 12 Non-verbal communication -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Kinship terminology in Tima (Schneider-Blum and Veit 2022) -- Appendix II: Colour chart as used in Tornay (1978) -- Appendix III: Politeness strategies (Brown and Levinson 1987) -- Appendix IV: Transcriptional symbols in conversation analysis -- References -- Subject index -- Language index
Summary: This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of pictures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive anthropology -- 3 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive linguistics -- 4 Spatial orientation -- 5 Language and habitual thought -- 6 Onomastics -- 7 The ethnography of communication -- 8 The contribution of interactional sociolinguistics -- 9 Emotions and the sounds of silence in a cross-cultural perspective -- 10 Cultural conceptions of face -- 11 Conversation analysis -- 12 Non-verbal communication -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Kinship terminology in Tima (Schneider-Blum and Veit 2022) -- Appendix II: Colour chart as used in Tornay (1978) -- Appendix III: Politeness strategies (Brown and Levinson 1987) -- Appendix IV: Transcriptional symbols in conversation analysis -- References -- Subject index -- Language index

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This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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