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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.
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This is an exploration of the many interconnections among language, culture and communicative meaning. Bonvillain reviews a wide range of both ethnographic and sociolinguistic studies of linguistic behaviour, while stressing interactional, situational, and social functions of language as they take place and are actively created within cultural contexts. This book is intended for those taking language and culture and anthropological linguistics courses.
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- PublisherPrentice Hall
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0135226406
- ISBN 13 9780135226407
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages448
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