Language and Social Relations

Informationen zum Autor Asif Agha is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena. Zusammenfassung Explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life! such as identity! gender relations! class! kinship! status! and hierarchies. Drawing on authentic data from over thirty different languages and societies! it shows how we use language to formulate and transmit models of social life and conduct. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Reflexivity; 2. From referring to registers; 3. Register formations; 4. The social life of cultural value; 5. Regrouping identity; 6. Registers of person deixis; 7. Honorific registers; 8. Norm and trope in kinship behaviour.

Klappentext
Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena.

Zusammenfassung
Explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, and hierarchies. Drawing on authentic data from over thirty different languages and societies, it shows how we use language to formulate and transmit models of social life and conduct.

Inhalt
1. Reflexivity; 2. From referring to registers; 3. Register formations; 4. The social life of cultural value; 5. Regrouping identity; 6. Registers of person deixis; 7. Honorific registers; 8. Norm and trope in kinship behaviour.

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