Linguistic Anthropology
In: Current anthropology, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 407-407
ISSN: 1537-5382
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In: Current anthropology, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 407-407
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 19-25
ISSN: 1540-5842
In: NATO Review, S. 3p : il(s)
Argues that foreign language training, especially the learning of English, is vital to the effectiveness of North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) peace-support operations and the Alliance's enlargement and Partnership activities. Poor language skills can lead to mistakes in peace-support operations resulting in casualties and may reduce the influence of some nations and create unnecessary tension and frustration; and more must be done to train and retain soldiers with relevant skills for international assignments.
In: Language and globalization
This blends discussion of the role of language minorities in politics with examples of language policy in a range of national contexts. It discusses minority rights and language protection, the policies of the state in privileging powerful majorities, the opportunities and challenges of both devolution and globalization
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 37-51
ISSN: 1545-4290
Linguistic anthropological theories and methods have enriched our understanding of education. Almost all education is mediated by language, and linguistic anthropologists use both precise linguistic analyses and powerful anthropological theories to describe how educational language use establishes important social relations. Because educational institutions influence processes of concern to anthropologists—including the production of differentially valued identities, the circulation and transformation of cultural models, and nation states' establishment of official peoples—linguistic anthropological research on education also contributes to cultural and linguistic anthropology more generally. This article defines linguistic anthropology through its focus on language form, use, ideology, and domain, and it reviews linguistic anthropological research that focuses on these four aspects of educational language use.
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 131-143
ISSN: 1545-4290
The Caucasus is characterized by a relatively high level of linguistic diversity, whether measured in terms of number of languages, number of language families, or structural properties. This is in stark contrast to low levels of linguistic diversity in neighboring areas (Europe, the Middle East), although the Caucasus does not reach such high levels of linguistic diversity as are found in New Guinea. There is even a variation between greater diversity in the North Caucasus and less diversity in the South Caucasus. Illustrative structural properties show not only idiosyncratic properties of individual languages and families but also features that have spread across the boundaries separating languages and families, sometimes with variation across languages with regard to finer points of detail, although few features characterize the Caucasus as a single linguistic area. Social factors have probably played at least as important a role as has geography in the development of linguistic diversity in the Caucasus.
In: Du bois review: social science research on race, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 159-186
ISSN: 1742-0598
Necrolinguisticsrefers tolinguistic-death-in-life, a situation in which languages are incarcerated, leaving folk in linguistic limbo. It names the process by which people come to lack the ability to use at least one language well, and includes those who are tongue-locked because their languages are incarcerated in one or more ways. In illustrating how and why the linguistic experience of Black folk inspires the termnecrolinguistics, examples from slavery, colonialism, apartheid, imperialism, and neocolonialism are provided to document the reality oflinguistic-death-in-life. The main assumption of this study is that we can investigate the humanism of institutions belonging to any epoch, regime, or society through its linguistic posture and practice. It is noted that many sub-Saharan African languages are on death row, with many of its speakers stranded in semilingualism (or plummeting linguistic competence), peculiar kinds of monolingualism, or a kind of unilateral bilingualism,asymmetrical bilingualism. Each of these states is elaborated using examples: a native American, "White Thunder" (semilingualism); Jacques Derrida, a Franco-Maghrebian Jew (discordant monolingualism); and the august personality of Léopold Sédar Senghor (unilateral bilingualism). But the paper ends on a bright note, recognizing that, though the linguistic muzzle muffles Black culture and humanity, the resilience of Black folk is evident through their development of patois, pidgins, and creoles.
In: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Ser v.94
This comprehensive book offers insightful crossnational and crosscontinental perspectives on mapping linguistic diversity in a variety of multicultural contexts, both in Europe and abroad, and in both the private and public domain, particularly in terms of spoken languages at home and visual languages on the street. Methodological issues and empirical outcomes are explored for a variety of European and non-European countries and languages.
In: The evolution of modern philosophy
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 153, Heft 1, S. 69-104
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Current anthropology, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 39-61
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Peace research abstracts journal, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 159
ISSN: 0031-3599
In: Marine corps gazette: the Marine Corps Association newsletter, Band 89, Heft 10, S. 30
ISSN: 0025-3170
In: Journal of politeness research: language, behaviour, culture, Band 2, Heft 2
ISSN: 1613-4877