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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxxv+764 pages with charts, bibliography and indexes. Small Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/2") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to cover and black lettering to spine. Foreword by A L Kroeber. Contributions by Franz Boas, Joseph H Greenberg, Ward H Goodenough, Claude Levi-Strauss, Kenneth L Pike, Bronislaw Malinowski, J R Firth, T G H Strehlow, Archibald A Hill, Eugene A Nida, Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, A Meillet, M Mauss, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Harry Joijer, Madeleine Mathiot, John Lotz, Harold C Conklin, Charles O Frake, Marry R Haas, Roger Brown, Marguerite Ford, Joseph B Casagrande, Basil Bernstein, S F Nadel, George Devereux, John Boman Adams, George L Trager, Harold C Conklin, Geroge M Cowan, George Herzog, Murray B Emeneau, Dmitri B Shimkin, Thomas A Sebeok, Stanley Newman, Ann Gayton, Leonard Bloomfield, Stanley Newman, Samuel Martin, John Gumperez, Charles A Ferguson, Hans Wolff, William Bright, Raven I McDavid, Joh L Fischer, Richard Diebold, Edward P Dozier, Paul L Garvin, William Bull, John Reinicke, Desmond T Cole, Norman A McQuown, Paul Thieme, Charles F Hockett, Sarah Gudschinsky, C F Voegelin, Yakov Malkiel and Dell Hymes. 1st edition. Language in Culture and Society surveys the full range of anthropological interests in the study of language, and of linguistic interests in the sociocultural context of language. Specifically anthropological in orientation, the book is unusually rich in cross-cultural content, in methodology in semantics, and in social variations in speech; it also includes material on verbal art and language change. The selections, almost entirely unabridged, discuss such topics and the place of linguistics and linguistic methodology in anthropology, structural and functional differences among languages; world view and cognitive style, cultural focus and semantic fields; role, socialization and speech; social structure and linguistic community; process of change; and results of change. Hymes' general introduction and introductions to each section integrate the material and place it in perspective, emphasizing the continuity of basic problems. Condition: Jacket corner chipped, spine extremities chipped, 1" tear with crease at front heal, 1/4" chip at back head, 1/2" tear at back edge heal, else a better than very good copy in like jacket.