Language, Culture, and Society
A Book of Readings, Second Edition
Ben G. Blount
Twenty-four articles representing a diversity
of interests and approaches have been brought together in this collection
intended to define and develop topics of central interest to language, culture,
and society. Opening pieces include enduring, classic writings by Boas, Sapir,
Whorf, Mead, and others, giving the volume an important historical orientation.
These contributions form the groundwork for the wide sampling of more recent and
contemporary works that follows. The selections chosen for Language, Culture,
and Society, Second Edition, reflect several major themes within the field:
language in relation to thought and cognition; language in relation to the
cultural partitioning of the environment; language in relation to
self-as-social; language in relation to social differentiation; and language in
relation to its emergence as a sociocultural phenomenon. The editor’s helpful
introductions point out significant ideas and trace the development of the
twenty-four contributions that form a diverse, well-balanced, and up-to-date
volume.
$31.95 list, 608 pages
10-digit ISBN:
0-88133-850-8
13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-850-8
© 1995
Table of Contents
Part I. FORMATIVE PERIOD: 1910–1940s
Introduction
1. Introduction to the Handbook of American Indian Languages (Franz Boas)
2. The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society (Edward Sapir)
3. Language (Edward Sapir)
4. The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language (Benjamin Lee
Whorf)
5. The Problem of Society: How We Become Selves (George Herbert Mead)
6. Relation of Mind to Response and Environment (George Herbert Mead)
Part II. PARADIGM DEVELOPMENT: 1950s–1970s
Introduction
7. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Harry Hoijer)
8. The Ethnographic Study of Cognitive Systems (Charles O. Frake)
9. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws (Claude Levi-Strauss)
10. Speculations on the Growth of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature (Brent Berlin)
11. Shifters, Linguistic Categories, and Cultural Description (Michael
Silverstein)
12. On Face-Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction (Erving
Goffman)
13. The Ethnography of Speaking (Dell H. Hymes)
14. Linguistic and Social Interaction in Two Communities (John J. Gumperz)
15. Sociolinguistics (Susan M. Ervin-Tripp)
16. Words, Utterance and Activities (Roy Turner)
Part III. DIRECTIONS 1980s–1990s
Introduction
17. The Grammar of Consciousness and the Consciousness of Grammar (Jane H. Hill)
18. Whorf’s View of the Linguistic Mediation of Thought (John A. Lucy)
19. Ethnoecology: The Relevance of Cognitive Anthropology for Human Ecology
(Eugene Hunn)
20. Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming (Paul Kay, Brent Berlin,
and William Merrifield)
21. Language Acquisitions and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and
Their Implications (Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin)
22. Language and the Culture of Gender: At the Intersection of Structure, Usage,
and Ideology (Michael Silverstein)
23. Parental Speech and Language Acquisition: An Anthropological Perspective
(Ben G. Blount)
24. Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power (Charles L. Briggs and Richard
Bauman)
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