Scholars have vacillated for centuries between two opposing assessments of the role of
poetics in social life. A long tradition of thinking about language and society argues that …

The increasing rapprochement of two historically distinct approaches to the analysis of
culture was announced in the 1981 special issue of the American Ethnologist: Symbolic and …

Der kommunikative Konstruktivismus ist ein theoretischer Ansatz, der auf dem
Sozialkonstruktivismus aufbaut, wie er von Berger und Luckmann (1966) begründet wurde …

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the
recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible …

A new edition of the bestselling textbook on discourse analysis, ideal for undergraduate and
graduate courses in linguistics and the broader humanities and social sciences Discourse …

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 …

The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for
discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures …

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 …

Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas
and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore …

Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes
understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language …