Anthropology – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Text, Context and Construction of Identity

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Language is central to our existence and it happens to be the most sophisticated product of the human mind. It is inconceivable to think of ourselves, our societies, our ideas, cultures or identities without language. It is the primary means of socialization, and whatever we know is a result of it. It is the primary medium of construction and dissemination of knowledge, and structures our thought processes in important ways that constitute our identity. In very complex ways, it interacts with the social, political and economic power structures that remain…

Language is central to our existence, structuring our thoughts and identity. It interacts with social, political, and economic power structures in complex ways. This book explains the relations between language and society, exploring identity to trigger a novel discourse.

Second Language Learning and Cultural Acquisition

New Perspectives

Edited By: Borko Kovačević, Ian Richards, Junichi Toyota

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Various issues that can be studied under cultural competence are found in numerous disciplines, but it seems that each discipline, be it semiotics, ethnic studies or literature, works on its own. As such, a comprehensive approach encompassing different aspects of culture may be in order when examining cultural competence. This volume focuses on the interaction of cultural influences on language teaching and learning. More specifically, it investigates how the implementation of better cultural understanding in language teaching and learning can be achieved. The book also serves to shed light on…

This volume focuses on cultural influences in language teaching and learning, shedding light on how cultural differences can hinder learners seeking native-like competence. It offers scholars and language teachers a new direction in language acquisition.

Language and Sexuality (through and) beyond Gender

Edited By: Costas Canakis, Kostas Yiannakopoulos, Venetia Kantsa

£39.99

This volume is a collection of papers on aspects of language and sexuality as understood and problematized by scholars in linguistics and anthropology. The idea behind this volume was to bring together people working on language-and-sexuality issues from within these two fields given that linguistic research on this topic is, more often than not, fieldwork-related and anthropological research characteristically focuses on issues of sexual onomasiology and semasiology, a concomitant of its preoccupation with social categories and categorization. This endeavor is in many respects a continuation of the discussion on the…

This collection of papers from linguistics and anthropology explores the intricate relation between language, gender, and sexuality. Contributors cover topics from heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and queer experience to voice, silence, and nationalism.

Discourses on Immigration in Times of Economic Crisis

A Critical Perspective

Edited By: Maria Martinez Lirola

£49.99

The press is generally regarded as a reliable source of information, albeit with the capacity to propagate ideologies, social conceptions and beliefs. In this regard, it seems evident that the social role of the press can by no means be underestimated: it can influence our knowledge, values and social codes through linguistic and other semiotic means, sometimes hidden under a euphemistic lexical disguise holding up a liberal and apparently respectful discourse. Discourses on Immigration in Times of Economic Crisis examines the discursive and visual elements that are involved in reproducing…

This book examines the discursive and visual elements that reproduce ethnic and racial prejudices in press discourse on immigration, particularly in times of economic crisis when immigrants are often framed as a “people-problem”.

The Ground from Which We Speak

Joint Speech and the Collective Subject

By: Fred Cummins

£61.99

Joint speech includes chanting, singing in unison, swearing public oaths, hollering at political rallies, and the humble ritual of singing “Happy Birthday”. It is found wherever people speak or sing the same words at the same time. This familiar behavior is found in prayer and ritual, in protest, on the football terraces, in classrooms, and in many other situations of note. These occasions are considered highly significant to those who take part, and yet joint speech has not been addressed from a scientific or linguistic perspective until now. This book…

Joint speech includes chanting, singing in unison, swearing public oaths and hollering at political rallies. Cummins provides a broad framing of how we might study this concept, exploring topics in linguistics, movement science, neuroscience, and beyond.

Language, Identity and Contemporary Society

Edited By: Om Prakash, Rajesh Kumar

£64.99

This book explores the instrumentality of language in constructing identity in contemporary society. The processes of globalization, hyper-mobility, rapid urbanization, and the increasing desire of local populations to be linked to the global community have created a pressing need to reconfigure identity in this new world order. Following the digital revolution, both traditional and new media are dissolving linguistic boundaries. The centrality of language in organizing communities and groups cannot be overstated: our social order is developed alongside our linguistic allegiance, shared narratives, collective memories, and common social history. Keeping…

In a globalized world, new media are dissolving linguistic boundaries, creating a pressing need to reconfigure identity. This book explores the centrality of language in this process, bringing together cultural and social perspectives from a range of disciplines.

An Introduction to Language Description

By: John Rhoades

£39.99

This book introduces the basic systems of language, and examines how these can be investigated and described. The systems of organizing speech sounds (phonology), meaning (lexical semantics), and grammar (morphology and syntax) are described, along with methods of figuring these out for other languages. The text will foster a deep appreciation in the reader of the fact that language is patterned and that these patterns can be discovered. To this end, problems using actual language data are presented so that the reader can apply the methods described in the book.…

This workbook introduces language’s basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.

Enacting the Roles of Boss and Employee in German Business Meetings

A Conversation Analytic Study of How Social Roles are Co-Constructed

By: Tobias Barske

£41.99

This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to “talk” this speech exchange system into existence. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, the study describes how participants in meetings perform different social roles, specifically, focusing on ways in which the enactment of “doing-being-boss” and “doing-being-employee” depends upon a moment-by-moment collaboration between all participants. In its description of how participants enact these social roles through talk-in-interaction, the book also incorporates systematically embodied actions into the analysis of business meetings. Chapter Two…

This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to “talk” social roles into existence. It describes how “doing-being-boss” and “doing-being-employee” depend on a collaboration of talk and embodied actions.