Book notice: Language, culture, and society

Jourdan, Christine and Kevin Tuite (eds.) 2006. Language, Culture, and Society: Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Table of contents

Introduction: Walking through walls --- Christine Jourdan and Kevin Tuite;

1. An issue about language --- Charles Taylor;

2. Linguistic relativities --- John Leavitt;

3. Benjamin Lee Whorf and the boasian foundations of contemporary ethnolinguistics --- Regna Darnell;

4. Cognitive anthropology --- Penelope Brown;

5. Methodological issues in cross-language colour naming --- Paul Kay;

6. Pidgins and creoles genesis: an anthropological offering --- Christine Jourdan;

7. Bilingualism --- Monica Heller;

8. The impact of language socialization on grammatical development --- Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin;

9. Intimate grammars: anthropological and psychoanalytic accounts of language, gender, and desire --- Elizabeth Povinelli;

10. Maximizing ethnopoetics: toward the fine-tuning (anthropological) experience --- Paul Friedrich;

11. Of phonemes, fossils and webs of meaning: the interpretation of language variation and change --- Kevin Tuite.