There is as yet no" anthropology of mass media." Even the intersection of anthropology and
mass media appears rather small considering the published literature to date. Within the last …

This paper synthesizes research on linguistic practice and critically examines the legacy of
Pierre Bourdieu from the perspective of linguistic anthropology. Bourdieu wrote widely about …

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and
ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty …

As thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the fatal
police shooting of unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown in the summer of …

Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic
Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political …

Employing a discourse approach to intercultural communication, this chapter explores the
'traffic in meaning'(Pratt 2002) that occurs when people from different cultures enter into …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents
the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best …

Language ideologies are morally and politically loaded representations of the structure and
use of languages in a social world. They link language to identities, institutions, and values …

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is
concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic …