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Nurturing Language
Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context
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Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.
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Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, University of Cologne, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of figures
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List of pictures
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List of maps
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List of tables
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List of abbreviations
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1 Introduction
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2 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive anthropology
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3 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive linguistics
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4 Spatial orientation
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5 Language and habitual thought
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6 Onomastics
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7 The ethnography of communication
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8 The contribution of interactional sociolinguistics
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9 Emotions and the sounds of silence in a cross-cultural perspective
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10 Cultural conceptions of face
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11 Conversation analysis
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12 Non-verbal communication
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Appendix I: Kinship terminology in Tima (Schneider-Blum and Veit 2022)
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Appendix II: Colour chart as used in Tornay (1978)
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Appendix III: Politeness strategies (Brown and Levinson 1987)
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Appendix IV: Transcriptional symbols in conversation analysis
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References
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Subject index
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Language index
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eBook published on:
November 7, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110726633
Hardcover published on:
November 7, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110727029
Paperback published on:
June 17, 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9783111522722
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
26
Main content:
382
Illustrations:
15
Coloured Illustrations:
51
Tables:
29
eBook ISBN:
9783110726633
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110727029
Paperback ISBN:
9783111522722
Keywords for this book
Anthropological Linguistics; Intercultural Communication; Cognitive Anthropology; Symbolic Anthropology
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars in Anthropological Linguistics, Cognitive Anthropology, Intercultural Communication, Symbolic Anthropology
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