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Linguistic Anthropology
Blackwell Anthologies in Social & Cultural Anthropology (ASCA)
Series Editor: Parker Shipton, Boston University
Drawing from some of the most significant scholarly work of the 19th and 20th centuries, the
Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series offers a comprehensive
and unique perspective on the ever-changing field of anthropology. It represents both a collection
of classic readers and an exciting challenge to the norms that have shaped this discipline over the
past century.
Each edited volume is devoted to a traditional subdiscipline of the field such as the anthro
pology of religion, linguistic anthropology, or medical anthropology; and provides a foundation
in the canonical readings of the selected area. Aware that such subdisciplinary definitions are still
widely recognized and useful - but increasingly problematic - these volumes are crafted to
include a rare and invaluable perspective on social and cultural anthropology at the onset of the
21st century. Each text provides a selection of classic readings together with contemporary
works that underscore the artificiality of subdisciplinary definitions and point students, re
searchers, and general readers in the new directions in which anthropology is moving.
Series Board
Fredrik Barth, University of Oslo and Boston University
Stephen Gudeman, University of Minnesota
Jane Guyer, Northwestern University
Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge
Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen
Emily Martin, Princeton University
John Middleton, Yale Emeritus
Sally Falk Moore, Harvard Emerita
Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago Emeritus
Joan Vincent, Columbia University and Barnard College Emerita
Published Volumes
1. Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, Second Edition
Edited by Alessandro Duranti
2. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, Second Edition
Edited by Michael Lambek
3. The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique
Edited by Joan Vincent
4. Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader
Edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone
5. Law and Anthropology: A Reader
Edited by Sally Falk Moore
6. The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical
Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism
Edited by Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud
7. The Anthropology of Art: A Reader
Edited by Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins
8. Feminist Anthropology: A Reader
Edited by Ellen Lewin
9. Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader
Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Jeffrey A. Sluka
10. Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader
Edited by Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter
11. Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader
Edited by Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S. New
Linguistic Anthropology
A Reader
Edited by
Alessandro Duranti
Second Edition
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Linguistic anthropology : a reader / edited by Alessandro Duranti. —2nd ed.
p. cm.—(Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-2633-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-4051-2632-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Anthropology linguistics. I. Duranti, Alessandro. II. Series.
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Contents
Acknowledgments to the Second Edition viii
Preface to the Second Edition ix
Linguistic Anthropology: History, Ideas, and Issues 1
Alessandro Duranti
Part I Ideal and Real Speech Communities 61
Introduction 63
1 The Speech Community 66
John J. Gumperz
2 The African-American Speech Community: Reality
and Sociolinguists 74
Marcyliena Morgan
3 The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the
Mediation of Communities 93
Debra Spitulnik
4 Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters 114
Benjamin Bailey
5 The Idealised Native Speaker, Reified Ethnicities, and
Classroom Realities 137
Constant Leung, Roxy Harris, and Ben Rampton
CONTENTS
The Performance of Language: Events, Genres, and Narratives 151
Introduction 153
6 Ways of Speaking 158
Dell Hymes
7 Formality and Informality in Communicative Events 172
Judith T. Irvine
8 Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings 188
Alessandro Duranti
9 Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power 214
Charles L. Briggs and Richard Bauman
10 Narrating the Political Self in a Campaign for US Congress 245
Alessandro Duranti
11 Hip Hop Nation Language 272
H. Samy Alim
Language Socialization and Literacy Practices 291
Introduction 293
12 Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three
Developmental Stories and Their Implications 296
Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin
13 Participant Structures and Communicative Competence:
Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom 329
Susan U. Philips
14 What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills
at Home and School 343
Shirley Brice Heath
15 Creating Social Identities through Doctrina Narratives 364
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez
The Power of Language 379
Introduction 381
16 Arizona Tewa Kiva Speech as a Manifestation
of a Dominant Language Ideology 386
Paul V. Kroskrity
17 Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation 402
Judith T. Irvine and Susan Gal
18 The “Father Knows Best” Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives 435
Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor
CONTENTS VII
19 Professional Vision 452
Charles Goodwin
20 Language, Race, and White Public Space 479
Jane H. Hill
21 No 493
Don Kulick
Index 504
Acknowledgments to
the Second Edition
Special thanks to the students and colleagues who provided feedback on the first
edition of this Reader and to the wonderful staff at Wiley-Blackwell for their
assistance and patience in the preparation of this second edition. The undergraduates
in my lower division course, “Culture and Communication” at UCLA, have played
an especially important role for my own understanding of what might be done to
make linguistic anthropology more relevant to their lives (the choice of some of the
new chapters in this edition took this goal into consideration). Several of my re
sourceful and insightful graduate students, among them Robin Conley, Jennifer
Guzman, and Anjali Browning, assisted me in rethinking the selection of articles to
be included. Anjali and Jennifer also helped me formulate the study questions at the
end of each chapter - a new feature of this edition. Any shortcomings in the final
choice of articles, suggested readings, and study questions remain of course my own.
