Language, Culture and Communication: The Meaning of Messages - Softcover

Bonvillain, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0135226406 ISBN 13: 9780135226407

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1993

Synopsis

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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Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0135226406
• ISBN 13: 9780135226407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448