Language in Strange and Familiar Places
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Edited by:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
About this book
Language and place are intimately connected: depending on where we are, what the context is and what our aims are, we will adjust our language accordingly. Yet linguistics defines itself by a framework that determines which kind of language is worth investigating. Within that framework, linguistics constructs both language and place in multiple ways: language as a sequestered thing belongs to the field site or the classroom; language as fluid practice is associated with the street; language as reconstruction belongs to migration corridors. What about the places that tend to fall between the cracks? This volume explores language in strange and familiar places, from Europe to Africa, Amazonia, Australia and the Pacific, in order to shed light on them.
Author / Editor information
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Central Queensland University, Australia; Anne Storch, University of Cologne, Germany; Viveka Velupillai, University of Giessen, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Language in strange and familiar places: A short introduction
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The eternal and the ephemeral
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Language preservation in strangely familiar places: How traditional skills have helped preserve Shaetlan
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Hidden landscapes and the images of the “unseen”: from north-west Amazonia to the Middle Sepik region of New Guinea
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The intersection of language, religion, identity, and scholarship: Opportunities for the revitalization of Ge’ez
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Speaking of oneself in multi-term evidential systems: From the Himalayas to Amazonia
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Ideological and communicative perspectives on divination amongst the people of Northern Ghana
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Beyond participants–researchers–research outsiders: food talk and the (co-)construction of knowledge in multi-sited participatory ethnography
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Making and selling Greek food in London: Migrant hospitality professionals talk about food authenticity over dinner
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Feierabendziegel: Roof tiles with celestial bodies on them, and how they are relevant for understanding experiences of contingency
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Index of authors
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Index of subjects
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Index of languages, language families, areas, and peoples
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