books by Alessandro Duranti     books:     Alessandro Duranti      A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (Blackwell Companions to Anthropology) Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture. Provides a definitive overview of the field of linguistic anthropology, comprised of ...             From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village Alessandro Duranti University of California Press, 1994 Alessandro Duranti explores the way traditional oratory in a Samoan village is shaped by the needs of the political process and shows how language insulates ceremonial speakers from the perils of everyday confrontation. He proposes a "moral flow hypothesis" in discourse, to describe a grammar that distributes praise and blame and in that way ...             Linguistic Anthropology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) Alessandro Duranti Cambridge University Press, 1997 Language is Power I just finished reading Alesandro Duranti's 1997 book for my linguistic anthropology core class. I wanted to take the opportunity here to comment on this book. A. Duranti goes through all of the major theoretical underpinnings and morphological manifestations that the ...             Key Terms in Language & Culture Wiley-Blackwell, 2001 Pretty good (preliminary) source A unique book for its field, Duranti et al.'s volume contains a good number of roughly 1000 word entries, a decent number of which have been written by well-known and respected linguistic anthropologists; the size constraint on the individual articles has, of course, ...             Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of ... Cambridge University Press, 1992 The past decade has seen a fundamental rethinking of the concept of context. Rather than functioning solely as a constraint on linguistic performance, context is now analyzed as a product of language use. Language and context are seen as interactively defined phenomena. The essays in this collection, written by many of the leading figures in the ...             Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Wiley-Blackwell, 2001 Great book. This was an excellent read and continues to be a very highly valued resource. It covers the most exciting and new areas in lingustic anthropology. A must for students of linguistics.          products you might be interested in anthropology A Framework for Understanding Poverty Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Biology Quicksand (Eve Duncan) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed search for books anthologies, anthropology, companions, foundations, interactive, linguistics      geepe.com    web randomly chosen book: Tales from the Hood (Sisters Grimm, Book 6)