• ISBN13: 9781119780656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley
• Publication Date: January 1, 2023
• Pages: 624
• Original Price: USD 195.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1320 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social and Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

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A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

In A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, an interdisciplinary collection of established scholars and members of a new generation of innovative researchers provide a comprehensive overview of the study of language practices in contemporary society. More than 30 original essays offer fresh perspectives on a uniquely wide range of classic and contemporary topics, present new research and methods, discuss current trends and debates, identify emerging areas of investigation, and more.

This new version of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Linguistic Anthropology offers an entirely new set of chapters that integrates advances in research and theory, while reflecting on new challenges and opportunities both inside and outside the field. The chapters discuss topics such as the experiencing of language, the use of linguistic research to address social justice, the ethical implications of institutional discourses, hybrid forms of sociality in digital media, racialized language, postcolonial discourse, and issues born out of new social media, migration, and global neoliberalism.

A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology is essential reading for researchers, scholars, and undergraduate and graduate students in linguistic anthropology, and a valuable resource for those in related fields such as sociolinguistics, discourse studies, semiotics, sociology of language, communication studies, and language education.

ALESSANDRO DURANTI is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). One of the most respected linguistic anthropologists in the world, Duranti has authored and edited many of the defining volumes in the field. He is the co-founder of the journal Pragmatics, former editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and past President of the Society of Linguistic Anthropology.

RACHEL GEORGE is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Whitman College. Her research interests include language socialization after regime change, ambivalent discourse, language and bureaucracy, and the semiotics of writing on social media. Her work on changing linguistic, political, and ethnic identities in Belgrade, Serbia has been published in Language in Society and Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

ROBIN CONLEY RINER is Professor of Anthropology at Marshall University. Her work in linguistic and legal anthropology investigates how people use language to navigate morally complex experiences surrounding institutional death and killing. She is the author of Confronting the Death Penalty and co-editor of Language and Social Justice in Practice.