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

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Language Ideologies

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

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"Language ideologies" refers to the representation, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. This collection of essays examines definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings, focusing on how such defining activity organizes individuals, institutions, and the relationships between them. The contributors look at language and its role in such fundamental social institutions as religious ritual, child socialization, gender relations, the nation-state, schooling and the law, and in doing so, link language to larger issues of identity, aesthetics, morality, and epistemology. This will be the first collection of work in this rapidly growing field.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780195105629
ISBN10 0195105621
Number Of Pages 352
Item Weight 499 g
Product Dimensions 155 x 234 x 25 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press Inc
Format paperback
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it offers a valuable discussion of the various definitions and uses of 'ideology' and is very instructive indeed. * Historiographia Linguistica, Volume XXVI, No 1/2 (1999) *

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Author's Bio

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.

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