Language, Culture, and Communication

The Meaning of Messages

Nancy Bonvillain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

405 Seiten

2000 | 3rd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-010429-8 (ISBN)

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Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world - to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages - this text explores the interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. It examines the multi-faceted meanings and uses of language.

For courses in Language and Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, and Language and Communication.

Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world—to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages—this text explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. It examines the multi-faceted meanings and uses of language and emphasizes the ways that language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions.

1. Introduction.

2. The Form of the Message.

3. Language and Cultural Meaning.

4. Contextual Components: Outline of an Ethnography of Communication.

5. Communicative Interactions.

6. Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation: Class and Race.

7. Language and Gender: English and English Speakers.

8. Cross-Cultural Studies of Language and Gender.

9. Learning Language.

10. The Acquisition of Communicative Competence.

11. Multilingual Nations.

12. Bilingual Communities.

13. Language and Institutional Encounters.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.10.2000
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Logopädie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► HNO-Heilkunde
ISBN-10	0-13-010429-9 / 0130104299
ISBN-13	978-0-13-010429-8 / 9780130104298
Zustand	Neuware