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Linguistic anthropology

Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use.[1]

Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes communication, forms social identity and group membership, organizes large-scale cultural beliefs and ideologies, and develops a common cultural representation of natural and social worlds.[2]

Historical development Edit

Linguistic anthropology emerged from the development of three distinct paradigms that have set the standard for approaching linguistic anthropology. The first, now known as "anthropological linguistics," focuses on the documentation of languages. The second, known as "linguistic anthropology," engages in theoretical studies of language use. The third, developed over the past two or three decades, studies issues from other subfields of anthropology with linguistic considerations. Though they developed sequentially, all three paradigms are still practiced today.[3]

First paradigm: anthropological linguistics Edit

The first paradigm, anthropological linguistics, is devoted to themes unique to the sub-discipline. This area includes documentation of languages that have been seen as at-risk for extinction, with a particular focus on indigenous languages of native North American tribes. It is also the paradigm most focused on linguistics.[3] Linguistic themes include the following:

Second paradigm: linguistic anthropology Edit

The second paradigm can be marked by reversing the words. Going from anthropological linguistics to linguistic anthropology, signals a more anthropological focus on the study. This term was preferred by Dell Hymes, who was also responsible, with John Gumperz, for the idea of ethnography of communication. The term linguistic anthropology reflected Hymes' vision of a future where language would be studied in the context of the situation and relative to the community speaking it.[3] This new era would involve many new technological developments, such as mechanical recording.

This paradigm developed in critical dialogue with the fields of folklore on the one hand and linguistics on the other. Hymes criticized folklorists' fixation on oral texts rather than the verbal artistry of performance.[4] At the same time, he criticized the cognitivist shift in linguistics heralded by the pioneering work of Noam Chomsky, arguing for an ethnographic focus on language in use.

Hymes had many revolutionary contributions to linguistic anthropology, the first of which was a new unit of analysis. Unlike the first paradigm, which focused on linguistic tools like measuring of phonemes and morphemes, the second paradigm's unit of analysis was the "speech event". A speech event is defined as one with speech presented for a significant duration throughout its occurrence (ex., a lecture or debate). This is different from a speech situation, where speech could possibly occur (ex., dinner). Hymes also pioneered a linguistic anthropological approach to ethnopoetics. Hymes had hoped that this paradigm would link linguistic anthropology more to anthropology. However, Hymes' ambition backfired as the second paradigm marked a distancing of the sub-discipline from the rest of anthropology.[5][6]

Third paradigm: anthropological issues studied via linguistic methods and data Edit

The third paradigm, which began in the late 1980s, redirected the primary focus on anthropology by providing a linguistic approach to anthropological issues. Rather than prioritizing the technical components of language, third paradigm anthropologists focus on studying culture through the use of linguistic tools. Themes include:

Furthermore, similar to how the second paradigm used new technology in its studies, the third paradigm heavily includes use of video documentation to support research.[3]

Areas of interest Edit

Contemporary linguistic anthropology continues research in all three paradigms described above:

  1. Documentation of languages
  2. Study of language through context
  3. The study of identity through linguistic means

The third paradigm, the study of anthropological issues through linguistic means, is an affluent area of study for current linguistic anthropologists.

Identity and intersubjectivity Edit

A great deal of work in linguistic anthropology investigates questions of sociocultural identity linguistically and discursively. Linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick has done so in relation to identity, for example, in a series of settings, first in a village called Gapun in northern Papua New Guinea.[7] He explored how the use of two languages with and around children in Gapun village: the traditional language (Taiap), not spoken anywhere but in their own village and thus primordially "indexical" of Gapuner identity, and Tok Pisin, the widely circulating official language of New Guinea. ("indexical" points to meanings beyond the immediate context.)[8] To speak the Taiap language is associated with one identity: not only local but "Backward" and also an identity based on the display of hed (personal autonomy). To speak Tok Pisin is to index a modern, Catholic identity, based not on hed but on save, an identity linked with the will and the skill to cooperate. In later work, Kulick demonstrates that certain loud speech performances in Brazil called um escândalo, Brazilian travesti (roughly, 'transvestite') sex workers shame clients. The travesti community, the argument goes, ends up at least making a powerful attempt to transcend the shame the larger Brazilian public might try to foist off on them, again by loud public discourse and other modes of performance.[9]

In addition, scholars such as Émile Benveniste,[10] Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall[11] Benjamin Lee,[12] Paul Kockelman,[13] and Stanton Wortham[14] (among many others) have contributed to understandings of identity as "intersubjectivity" by examining the ways it is discursively constructed.

Socialization Edit

In a series of studies, linguistic anthropologists Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin addressed the anthropological topic of socialization (the process by which infants, children, and foreigners become members of a community, learning to participate in its culture), using linguistic and other ethnographic methods.[15] They discovered that the processes of enculturation and socialization do not occur apart from the process of language acquisition, but that children acquire language and culture together in what amounts to an integrated process. Ochs and Schieffelin demonstrated that baby talk is not universal, that the direction of adaptation (whether the child is made to adapt to the ongoing situation of speech around it or vice versa) was a variable that correlated, for example, with the direction it was held vis-à-vis a caregiver's body. In many societies caregivers hold a child facing outward so as to orient it to a network of kin whom it must learn to recognize early in life.

Ochs and Schieffelin demonstrated that members of all societies socialize children both to and through the use of language. Ochs and Schieffelin uncovered how, through naturally occurring stories told during dinners in white middle class households in Southern California, both mothers and fathers participated in replicating male dominance (the "father knows best" syndrome) by the distribution of participant roles such as protagonist (often a child but sometimes mother and almost never the father) and "problematizer" (often the father, who raised uncomfortable questions or challenged the competence of the protagonist). When mothers collaborated with children to get their stories told, they unwittingly set themselves up to be subject to this process.

Schieffelin's more recent research has uncovered the socializing role of pastors and other fairly new Bosavi converts in the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea community she studies.[16][17][18][19] Pastors have introduced new ways of conveying knowledge, new linguistic epistemic markers[16]—and new ways of speaking about time.[18] And they have struggled with and largely resisted those parts of the Bible that speak of being able to know the inner states of others (e.g. the gospel of Mark, chapter 2, verses 6–8).[19]

Ideologies Edit

In a third example of the current (third) paradigm, since Roman Jakobson's student Michael Silverstein opened the way, there has been an increase in the work done by linguistic anthropologists on the major anthropological theme of ideologies,[20]—in this case "language ideologies", sometimes defined as "shared bodies of commonsense notions about the nature of language in the world."[21] Silverstein has demonstrated that these ideologies are not mere false consciousness but actually influence the evolution of linguistic structures, including the dropping of "thee" and "thou" from everyday English usage.[22] Woolard, in her overview of "code switching", or the systematic practice of alternating linguistic varieties within a conversation or even a single utterance, finds the underlying question anthropologists ask of the practice—Why do they do that?—reflects a dominant linguistic ideology. It is the ideology that people should "really" be monoglot and efficiently targeted toward referential clarity rather than diverting themselves with the messiness of multiple varieties in play at a single time.[23]

Much research on linguistic ideologies probes subtler influences on language, such as the pull exerted on Tewa, a Kiowa-Tanoan language spoken in certain New Mexican pueblos and on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, by "kiva speech", discussed in the next section.[24]

Other linguists have carried out research in the areas of language contact, language endangerment, and 'English as a global language'. For instance, Indian linguist Braj Kachru investigated local varieties of English in South Asia, the ways in which English functions as a lingua franca among multicultural groups in India.[25] British linguist David Crystal has contributed to investigations of language death attention to the effects of cultural assimilation resulting in the spread of one dominant language in situations of colonialism.[26]

Heritage language ideologies Edit

More recently, a new line of ideology work is beginning to enter the field of linguistics in relation to heritage languages. Specifically, applied linguist Martin Guardado has posited that heritage language ideologies are "somewhat fluid sets of understandings, justifications, beliefs, and judgments that linguistic minorities hold about their languages."[27] Guardado goes on to argue that ideologies of heritage languages also contain the expectations and desires of linguistic minority families "regarding the relevance of these languages in their children’s lives as well as when, where, how, and to what ends these languages should be used." Although this is arguably a fledgling line of language ideology research, this work is poised to contribute to the understanding of how ideologies of language operate in a variety of settings.

Social space Edit

In a final example of this third paradigm, a group of linguistic anthropologists have done very creative work on the idea of social space. Duranti published a groundbreaking article on Samoan greetings and their use and transformation of social space.[28] Before that, Indonesianist Joseph Errington, making use of earlier work by Indonesianists not necessarily concerned with language issues per se, brought linguistic anthropological methods (and semiotic theory) to bear on the notion of the exemplary center, the center of political and ritual power from which emanated exemplary behavior.[29] Errington demonstrated how the Javanese priyayi, whose ancestors served at the Javanese royal courts, became emissaries, so to speak, long after those courts had ceased to exist, representing throughout Java the highest example of "refined speech." The work of Joel Kuipers develops this theme vis-a-vis the island of Sumba, Indonesia. And, even though it pertains to Tewa Indians in Arizona rather than Indonesians, Paul Kroskrity's argument that speech forms originating in the Tewa kiva (or underground ceremonial space) forms the dominant model for all Tewa speech can be seen as a direct parallel.

Silverstein tries to find the maximum theoretical significance and applicability in this idea of exemplary centers. He feels, in fact, that the exemplary center idea is one of linguistic anthropology's three most important findings. He generalizes the notion thus, arguing "there are wider-scale institutional 'orders of interactionality,' historically contingent yet structured. Within such large-scale, macrosocial orders, in-effect ritual centers of semiosis come to exert a structuring, value-conferring influence on any particular event of discursive interaction with respect to the meanings and significance of the verbal and other semiotic forms used in it."[30] Current approaches to such classic anthropological topics as ritual by linguistic anthropologists emphasize not static linguistic structures but the unfolding in realtime of a "'hypertrophic' set of parallel orders of iconicity and indexicality that seem to cause the ritual to create its own sacred space through what appears, often, to be the magic of textual and nontextual metricalizations, synchronized."[30][31]

Race, class, and gender Edit

Addressing the broad central concerns of the subfield and drawing from its core theories, many scholars focus on the intersections of language and the particularly salient social constructs of race (and ethnicity), class, and gender (and sexuality). These works generally consider the roles of social structures (e.g., ideologies and institutions) related to race, class, and gender (e.g., marriage, labor, pop culture, education) in terms of their constructions and in terms of individuals' lived experiences. A short list of linguistic anthropological texts that address these topics follows:

Race and ethnicity Edit

  • Alim, H. Samy, John R. Rickford, and Arnetha F. Ball. 2016. Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race. Oxford University Press.
  • Bucholtz, Mary. 2001. "The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11 (1): 84–100. doi:10.1525/jlin.2001.11.1.84.
  • Bucholtz, Mary. 2010. White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity. Cambridge University Press.
  • Davis, Jenny L. 2018. Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance. University of Arizona Press.
  • Dick, H. 2011. "Making Immigrants Illegal in Small-Town USA." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 21(S1):E35-E55.
  • Hill, Jane H. 1998. "Language, Race, and White Public Space." American Anthropologist 100 (3): 680–89. doi:10.1525/aa.1998.100.3.680.
  • Hill, Jane H. 2008. The Everyday Language of White Racism. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • García-Sánchez, Inmaculada M. 2014. Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods: The Politics of Belonging. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Ibrahim, Awad. 2014. The Rhizome of Blackness: A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming. 1 edition. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
  • Rosa, Jonathan. 2019. Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad. Oxford University Press.
  • Smalls, Krystal. 2018. "Fighting Words: Antiblackness and Discursive Violence in an American High School." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 23(3):356-383.
  • Spears, Arthur Kean. 1999. Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture. Wayne State University Press.
  • Urciuoli, Bonnie. 2013. Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class. Waveland Press.
  • Wirtz, Kristina. 2011. "Cuban Performances of Blackness as the Timeless Past Still Among Us." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 21(S1):E11-E34.

Class Edit

  • Fox, Aaron A. 2004. Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture. Duke University Press.
  • Shankar, Shalini. 2008. Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley. Duke University Press.
  • Nakassis, Constantine V. 2016. Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India. University of Chicago Press.

Gender and sexuality Edit

  • Bucholtz, Mary. 1999. "'Why be normal?': Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls". Language in Society. 28 (2): 207–210.
  • Fader, Ayala. 2009. Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. Princeton University Press.
  • Gaudio, Rudolf Pell. 2011. Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Hall, Kira, and Mary Bucholtz. 1995. Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge.
  • Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2006. From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care. Oxford University Press.
  • Kulick, Don. 2000. "Gay and Lesbian Language." Annual Review of Anthropology 29 (1): 243–85. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.243.
  • Kulick, Don. 2008. "Gender Politics." Men and Masculinities 11 (2): 186–92. doi:10.1177/1097184X08315098.
  • Kulick, Don. 1997. "The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes." American Anthropologist 99 (3): 574–85.
  • Livia, Anna, and Kira Hall. 1997. Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press.
  • Manalansan, Martin F. IV. "'Performing' the Filipino Gay Experiences in America: Linguistic Strategies in a Transnational Context." Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Language. Ed. William L Leap. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1997. 249–266
  • Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2014. Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Rampton, Ben. 1995. Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents. Longman.
  • Zimman, Lal, Jenny L. Davis, and Joshua Raclaw. 2014. Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press.

Ethnopoetics Edit

Ethnopoetics is a method of recording text versions of oral poetry or narrative performances (i.e. verbal lore) that uses poetic lines, verses, and stanzas (instead of prose paragraphs) to capture the formal, poetic performance elements which would otherwise be lost in the written texts. The goal of any ethnopoetic text is to show how the techniques of unique oral performers enhance the aesthetic value of their performances within their specific cultural contexts. Major contributors to ethnopoetic theory include Jerome Rothenberg, Dennis Tedlock, and Dell Hymes. Ethnopoetics is considered a subfield of ethnology, anthropology, folkloristics, stylistics, linguistics, and literature and translation studies.

Endangered languages: language documentation and revitalization Edit

Endangered languages are languages that are not being passed down to children as their mother tongue or that have declining numbers of speakers for a variety of reasons. Therefore, after a couple generations these languages may no longer be spoken.[32] Anthropologists have been involved with endangered language communities through their involvement in language documentation and revitalization projects.

In a language documentation project, researchers work to develop records of the language - these records could be field notes and audio or video recordings. To follow best practices of documentation, these records should be clearly annotated and kept safe within an archive of some kind. Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists involved in language documentation within North America and he supported the development of three key materials: 1) grammars, 2) texts, and 3) dictionaries. This is now known as the Boasian Trilogy.[33]

Language revitalization is the practice of bringing a language back into common use. The revitalization efforts can take the form of teaching the language to new speakers or encouraging the continued use within the community.[34] One example of a language revitalization project is the Lenape language course taught at Swathmore College, Pennsylvania. The course aims to educate indigenous and non-indigenous students about the Lenape language and culture.[35]

Language reclamation, as a subset of revitalization, implies that a language has been taken away from a community and addresses their concern in taking back the agency to revitalize their language on their own terms. Language reclamation addresses the power dynamics associated with language loss. Encouraging those who already know the language to use it, increasing the domains of usage, and increasing the overall prestige of the language are all components of reclamation. One example of this is the Miami language being brought back from 'extinct' status through extensive archives.[36]

While the field of linguistics has also been focused on the study of the linguistic structures of endangered languages, anthropologists also contribute to this field through their emphasize on ethnographic understandings of the socio-historical context of language endangerment, but also of language revitalization and reclamation projects.[37]

See also Edit

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Further reading Edit

  • Ahearn, Laura M. 2011. Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Blount, Ben G. ed. 1995. Language, Culture, and Society: A Book of Readings. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.
  • Bonvillain, Nancy. 1993. Language, culture, and communication: The meaning of messages. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Brenneis, Donald; and Ronald K. S. Macaulay. 1996. The matrix of language: Contemporary linguistic anthropology. Boulder: Westview.
  • Duranti, Alessandro. 1997. Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Duranti, Alessandro. ed. 2001. Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  • Giglioli, Pier Paolo. 1972. Language and social context: Selected readings. Middlesex: Penguin Books.
  • Salzmann, Zdenek, James Stanlaw and Nobuko Adachi. 2012. Language, culture, & society. Westview Press.

External links Edit

  • Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Downloadable publications of authors cited in the article

  • Bambi Schieffelin's publications
  • James Wilce's publications

The Jurgen Trabant Wilhelm von Humboldt Lectures (7hrs)

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Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use 1 Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes communication forms social identity and group membership organizes large scale cultural beliefs and ideologies and develops a common cultural representation of natural and social worlds 2 Contents 1 Historical development 1 1 First paradigm anthropological linguistics 1 2 Second paradigm linguistic anthropology 1 3 Third paradigm anthropological issues studied via linguistic methods and data 2 Areas of interest 2 1 Identity and intersubjectivity 2 2 Socialization 2 3 Ideologies 2 4 Heritage language ideologies 2 5 Social space 2 6 Race class and gender 2 6 1 Race and ethnicity 2 6 2 Class 2 6 3 Gender and sexuality 2 7 Ethnopoetics 2 8 Endangered languages language documentation and revitalization 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksHistorical development EditLinguistic anthropology emerged from the development of three distinct paradigms that have set the standard for approaching linguistic anthropology The first now known as anthropological linguistics focuses on the documentation of languages The second known as linguistic anthropology engages in theoretical studies of language use The third developed over the past two or three decades studies issues from other subfields of anthropology with linguistic considerations Though they developed sequentially all three paradigms are still practiced today 3 First paradigm anthropological linguistics Edit Main article Anthropological linguistics The first paradigm anthropological linguistics is devoted to themes unique to the sub discipline This area includes documentation of languages that have been seen as at risk for extinction with a particular focus on indigenous languages of native North American tribes It is also the paradigm most focused on linguistics 3 Linguistic themes include the following Grammatical description Typological classification and Linguistic relativitySecond paradigm linguistic anthropology Edit The second paradigm can be marked by reversing the words Going from anthropological linguistics to linguistic anthropology signals a more anthropological focus on the study This term was preferred by Dell Hymes who was also responsible with John Gumperz for the idea of ethnography of communication The term linguistic anthropology reflected Hymes vision of a future where language would be studied in the context of the situation and relative to the community speaking it 3 This new era would involve many new technological developments such as mechanical recording This paradigm developed in critical dialogue with the fields of folklore on the one hand and linguistics on the other Hymes criticized folklorists fixation on oral texts rather than the verbal artistry of performance 4 At the same time he criticized the cognitivist shift in linguistics heralded by the pioneering work of Noam Chomsky arguing for an ethnographic focus on language in use Hymes had many revolutionary contributions to linguistic anthropology the first of which was a new unit of analysis Unlike the first paradigm which focused on linguistic tools like measuring of phonemes and morphemes the second paradigm s unit of analysis was the speech event A speech event is defined as one with speech presented for a significant duration throughout its occurrence ex a lecture or debate This is different from a speech situation where speech could possibly occur ex dinner Hymes also pioneered a linguistic anthropological approach to ethnopoetics Hymes had hoped that this paradigm would link linguistic anthropology more to anthropology However Hymes ambition backfired as the second paradigm marked a distancing of the sub discipline from the rest of anthropology 5 6 Third paradigm anthropological issues studied via linguistic methods and data Edit The third paradigm which began in the late 1980s redirected the primary focus on anthropology by providing a linguistic approach to anthropological issues Rather than prioritizing the technical components of language third paradigm anthropologists focus on studying culture through the use of linguistic tools Themes include investigations of personal and social identities shared ideologies construction of narrative interactions among individualsFurthermore similar to how the second paradigm used new technology in its studies the third paradigm heavily includes use of video documentation to support research 3 Areas of interest EditContemporary linguistic anthropology continues research in all three paradigms described above Documentation of languages Study of language through context The study of identity through linguistic meansThe third paradigm the study of anthropological issues through linguistic means is an affluent area of study for current linguistic anthropologists Identity and intersubjectivity Edit A great deal of work in linguistic anthropology investigates questions of sociocultural identity linguistically and discursively Linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick has done so in relation to identity for example in a series of settings first in a village called Gapun in northern Papua New Guinea 7 He explored how the use of two languages with and around children in Gapun village the traditional language Taiap not spoken anywhere but in their own village and thus primordially indexical of Gapuner identity and Tok Pisin the widely circulating official language of New Guinea indexical points to meanings beyond the immediate context 8 To speak the Taiap language is associated with one identity not only local but Backward and also an identity based on the display of hed personal autonomy To speak Tok Pisin is to index a modern Catholic identity based not on hed but on save an identity linked with the will and the skill to cooperate In later work Kulick demonstrates that certain loud speech performances in Brazil called um escandalo Brazilian travesti roughly transvestite sex workers shame clients The travesti community the argument goes ends up at least making a powerful attempt to transcend the shame the larger Brazilian public might try to foist off on them again by loud public discourse and other modes of performance 9 In addition scholars such as Emile Benveniste 10 Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall 11 Benjamin Lee 12 Paul Kockelman 13 and Stanton Wortham 14 among many others have contributed to understandings of identity as intersubjectivity by examining the ways it is discursively constructed Socialization Edit In a series of studies linguistic anthropologists Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin addressed the anthropological topic of socialization the process by which infants children and foreigners become members of a community learning to participate in its culture using linguistic and other ethnographic methods 15 They discovered that the processes of enculturation and socialization do not occur apart from the process of language acquisition but that children acquire language and culture together in what amounts to an integrated process Ochs and Schieffelin demonstrated that baby talk is not universal that the direction of adaptation whether the child is made to adapt to the ongoing situation of speech around it or vice versa was a variable that correlated for example with the direction it was held vis a vis a caregiver s body In many societies caregivers hold a child facing outward so as to orient it to a network of kin whom it must learn to recognize early in life Ochs and Schieffelin demonstrated that members of all societies socialize children both to and through the use of language Ochs and Schieffelin uncovered how through naturally occurring stories told during dinners in white middle class households in Southern California both mothers and fathers participated in replicating male dominance the father knows best syndrome by the distribution of participant roles such as protagonist often a child but sometimes mother and almost never the father and problematizer often the father who raised uncomfortable questions or challenged the competence of the protagonist When mothers collaborated with children to get their stories told they unwittingly set themselves up to be subject to this process Schieffelin s more recent research has uncovered the socializing role of pastors and other fairly new Bosavi converts in the Southern Highlands Papua New Guinea community she studies 16 17 18 19 Pastors have introduced new ways of conveying knowledge new linguistic epistemic markers 16 and new ways of speaking about time 18 And they have struggled with and largely resisted those parts of the Bible that speak of being able to know the inner states of others e g the gospel of Mark chapter 2 verses 6 8 19 Ideologies Edit In a third example of the current third paradigm since Roman Jakobson s student Michael Silverstein opened the way there has been an increase in the work done by linguistic anthropologists on the major anthropological theme of ideologies 20 in this case language ideologies sometimes defined as shared bodies of commonsense notions about the nature of language in the world 21 Silverstein has demonstrated that these ideologies are not mere false consciousness but actually influence the evolution of linguistic structures including the dropping of thee and thou from everyday English usage 22 Woolard in her overview of code switching or the systematic practice of alternating linguistic varieties within a conversation or even a single utterance finds the underlying question anthropologists ask of the practice Why do they do that reflects a dominant linguistic ideology It is the ideology that people should really be monoglot and efficiently targeted toward referential clarity rather than diverting themselves with the messiness of multiple varieties in play at a single time 23 Much research on linguistic ideologies probes subtler influences on language such as the pull exerted on Tewa a Kiowa Tanoan language spoken in certain New Mexican pueblos and on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona by kiva speech discussed in the next section 24 Other linguists have carried out research in the areas of language contact language endangerment and English as a global language For instance Indian linguist Braj Kachru investigated local varieties of English in South Asia the ways in which English functions as a lingua franca among multicultural groups in India 25 British linguist David Crystal has contributed to investigations of language death attention to the effects of cultural assimilation resulting in the spread of one dominant language in situations of colonialism 26 Heritage language ideologies Edit More recently a new line of ideology work is beginning to enter the field of linguistics in relation to heritage languages Specifically applied linguist Martin Guardado has posited that heritage language ideologies are somewhat fluid sets of understandings justifications beliefs and judgments that linguistic minorities hold about their languages 27 Guardado goes on to argue that ideologies of heritage languages also contain the expectations and desires of linguistic minority families regarding the relevance of these languages in their children s lives as well as when where how and to what ends these languages should be used Although this is arguably a fledgling line of language ideology research this work is poised to contribute to the understanding of how ideologies of language operate in a variety of settings Social space Edit In a final example of this third paradigm a group of linguistic anthropologists have done very creative work on the idea of social space Duranti published a groundbreaking article on Samoan greetings and their use and transformation of social space 28 Before that Indonesianist Joseph Errington making use of earlier work by Indonesianists not necessarily concerned with language issues per se brought linguistic anthropological methods and semiotic theory to bear on the notion of the exemplary center the center of political and ritual power from which emanated exemplary behavior 29 Errington demonstrated how the Javanese priyayi whose ancestors served at the Javanese royal courts became emissaries so to speak long after those courts had ceased to exist representing throughout Java the highest example of refined speech The work of Joel Kuipers develops this theme vis a vis the island of Sumba Indonesia And even though it pertains to Tewa Indians in Arizona rather than Indonesians Paul Kroskrity s argument that speech forms originating in the Tewa kiva or underground ceremonial space forms the dominant model for all Tewa speech can be seen as a direct parallel Silverstein tries to find the maximum theoretical significance and applicability in this idea of exemplary centers He feels in fact that the exemplary center idea is one of linguistic anthropology s three most important findings He generalizes the notion thus arguing there are wider scale institutional orders of interactionality historically contingent yet structured Within such large scale macrosocial orders in effect ritual centers of semiosis come to exert a structuring value conferring influence on any particular event of discursive interaction with respect to the meanings and significance of the verbal and other semiotic forms used in it 30 Current approaches to such classic anthropological topics as ritual by linguistic anthropologists emphasize not static linguistic structures but the unfolding in realtime of a hypertrophic set of parallel orders of iconicity and indexicality that seem to cause the ritual to create its own sacred space through what appears often to be the magic of textual and nontextual metricalizations synchronized 30 31 Race class and gender Edit Addressing the broad central concerns of the subfield and drawing from its core theories many scholars focus on the intersections of language and the particularly salient social constructs of race and ethnicity class and gender and sexuality These works generally consider the roles of social structures e g ideologies and institutions related to race class and gender e g marriage labor pop culture education in terms of their constructions and in terms of individuals lived experiences A short list of linguistic anthropological texts that address these topics follows Race and ethnicity Edit Alim H Samy John R Rickford and Arnetha F Ball 2016 Raciolinguistics How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race Oxford University Press Bucholtz Mary 2001 The Whiteness of Nerds Superstandard English and Racial Markedness Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11 1 84 100 doi 10 1525 jlin 2001 11 1 84 Bucholtz Mary 2010 White Kids Language Race and Styles of Youth Identity Cambridge University Press Davis Jenny L 2018 Talking Indian Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance University of Arizona Press Dick H 2011 Making Immigrants Illegal in Small Town USA Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21 S1 E35 E55 Hill Jane H 1998 Language Race and White Public Space American Anthropologist 100 3 680 89 doi 10 1525 aa 1998 100 3 680 Hill Jane H 2008 The Everyday Language of White Racism Wiley Blackwell Garcia Sanchez Inmaculada M 2014 Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods The Politics of Belonging John Wiley amp Sons Ibrahim Awad 2014 The Rhizome of Blackness A Critical Ethnography of Hip Hop Culture Language Identity and the Politics of Becoming 1 edition New York Peter Lang Publishing Inc Rosa Jonathan 2019 Looking like a Language Sounding like a Race Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad Oxford University Press Smalls Krystal 2018 Fighting Words Antiblackness and Discursive Violence in an American High School Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 23 3 356 383 Spears Arthur Kean 1999 Race and Ideology Language Symbolism and Popular Culture Wayne State University Press Urciuoli Bonnie 2013 Exposing Prejudice Puerto Rican Experiences of Language Race and Class Waveland Press Wirtz Kristina 2011 Cuban Performances of Blackness as the Timeless Past Still Among Us Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21 S1 E11 E34 Class Edit Fox Aaron A 2004 Real Country Music and Language in Working Class Culture Duke University Press Shankar Shalini 2008 Desi Land Teen Culture Class and Success in Silicon Valley Duke University Press Nakassis Constantine V 2016 Doing Style Youth and Mass Mediation in South India University of Chicago Press Gender and sexuality Edit Bucholtz Mary 1999 Why be normal Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls Language in Society 28 2 207 210 Fader Ayala 2009 Mitzvah Girls Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn Princeton University Press Gaudio Rudolf Pell 2011 Allah Made Us Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City John Wiley amp Sons Hall Kira and Mary Bucholtz 1995 Gender Articulated Language and the Socially Constructed Self New York Routledge Jacobs Huey Lanita 2006 From the Kitchen to the Parlor Language and Becoming in African American Women s Hair Care Oxford University Press Kulick Don 2000 Gay and Lesbian Language Annual Review of Anthropology 29 1 243 85 doi 10 1146 annurev anthro 29 1 243 Kulick Don 2008 Gender Politics Men and Masculinities 11 2 186 92 doi 10 1177 1097184X08315098 Kulick Don 1997 The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes American Anthropologist 99 3 574 85 Livia Anna and Kira Hall 1997 Queerly Phrased Language Gender and Sexuality Oxford University Press Manalansan Martin F IV Performing the Filipino Gay Experiences in America Linguistic Strategies in a Transnational Context Beyond the Lavender Lexicon Authenticity Imagination and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Language Ed William L Leap New York Gordon and Breach 1997 249 266 Mendoza Denton Norma 2014 Homegirls Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs John Wiley amp Sons Rampton Ben 1995 Crossing Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents Longman Zimman Lal Jenny L Davis and Joshua Raclaw 2014 Queer Excursions Retheorizing Binaries in Language Gender and Sexuality Oxford University Press Ethnopoetics Edit Main article Ethnopoetics Ethnopoetics is a method of recording text versions of oral poetry or narrative performances i e verbal lore that uses poetic lines verses and stanzas instead of prose paragraphs to capture the formal poetic performance elements which would otherwise be lost in the written texts The goal of any ethnopoetic text is to show how the techniques of unique oral performers enhance the aesthetic value of their performances within their specific cultural contexts Major contributors to ethnopoetic theory include Jerome Rothenberg Dennis Tedlock and Dell Hymes Ethnopoetics is considered a subfield of ethnology anthropology folkloristics stylistics linguistics and literature and translation studies Endangered languages language documentation and revitalization Edit Endangered languages are languages that are not being passed down to children as their mother tongue or that have declining numbers of speakers for a variety of reasons Therefore after a couple generations these languages may no longer be spoken 32 Anthropologists have been involved with endangered language communities through their involvement in language documentation and revitalization projects In a language documentation project researchers work to develop records of the language these records could be field notes and audio or video recordings To follow best practices of documentation these records should be clearly annotated and kept safe within an archive of some kind Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists involved in language documentation within North America and he supported the development of three key materials 1 grammars 2 texts and 3 dictionaries This is now known as the Boasian Trilogy 33 Language revitalization is the practice of bringing a language back into common use The revitalization efforts can take the form of teaching the language to new speakers or encouraging the continued use within the community 34 One example of a language revitalization project is the Lenape language course taught at Swathmore College Pennsylvania The course aims to educate indigenous and non indigenous students about the Lenape language and culture 35 Language reclamation as a subset of revitalization implies that a language has been taken away from a community and addresses their concern in taking back the agency to revitalize their language on their own terms Language reclamation addresses the power dynamics associated with language loss Encouraging those who already know the language to use it increasing the domains of usage and increasing the overall prestige of the language are all components of reclamation One example of this is the Miami language being brought back from extinct status through extensive archives 36 While the field of linguistics has also been focused on the study of the linguistic structures of endangered languages anthropologists also contribute to this field through their emphasize on ethnographic understandings of the socio historical context of language endangerment but also of language revitalization and reclamation projects 37 See also EditEthnolinguistics Evolutionary psychology of language Linguistic insecurity List of important publications in anthropology Miyako Inoue Semiotic anthropology Sociocultural linguistics Sociolinguistics Sociology of language World Oral Literature ProjectReferences Edit Duranti Alessandro ed 2004 Companion to Linguistic Anthropology Malden MA Blackwell Society for Linguistic Anthropology n d About the Society for Linguistic Anthropology accessed 7 July 2010 a b c d Duranti Alessandro 2003 Language as Culture in U S Anthropology Three Paradigms Current Anthropology 44 3 323 348 Hymes Dell 1971 The Contribution of Folklore to Sociolinguistic Research The Journal of American Folklore 84 331 42 50 doi 10 2307 539732 ISSN 0021 8715 JSTOR 539732 Bauman Richard 1977 Verbal Art as Performance American Anthropologist 77 290 311 doi 10 1525 aa 1975 77 2 02a00030 Hymes Dell 1981 1975 Breakthrough into Performance In In Vain I Tried to Tell You Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics D Hymes ed Pp 79 141 Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press Kulick Don 1992 Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction Socialization Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinea Village Cambridge Cambridge University Press Silverstein Michael 1976 Shifters Linguistic Categories and Cultural Description In Meaning in Anthropology K Basso and H A Selby eds Pp 11 56 Albuquerque School of American Research University of New Mexico Press Kulick Don and Charles H Klein 2003 Scandalous Acts The Politics of Shame among Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes In Recognition Struggles and Social Movements Contested Identities Agency and Power B Hobson ed Pp 215 238 Cambridge Cambridge University Press Benveniste Emile 1971 Problems in general linguistics Miami University of Miami Press Bucholtz M amp Hall K 2005 Identity and interaction A sociocultural linguistic approach Discourse Studies 7 4 5 585 614 Lee Benjamin 1997 Talking Heads Language Metalanguage and the Semiotics of Subjectivity Durham Duke University Press Kockelman Paul 2004 Stance and Subjectivity Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14 2 127 150 Wortham Stanton 2006 Learning identity The joint emergence of social identification and academic learning New York NY US Cambridge University Press Ochs Elinor 1988 Culture and language development Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village Cambridge Cambridge University Press Ochs Elinor and Bambi Schieffelin 1984 Language Acquisition and Socialization Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications In Culture Theory Essays on Mind Self and Emotion R Shweder and R A LeVine eds Pp 276 320 New York Cambridge University Ochs Elinor and Carolyn Taylor 2001 The Father Knows Best Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives In Linguistic Anthropology A Reader A Duranti ed Pp 431 449 Oxford Malden MA Blackwell Schieffelin Bambi B 1990 The Give and Take of Everyday Life Language Socialization of Kaluli Children Cambridge Cambridge University Press a b Schieffelin Bambi B 1995 Creating evidence Making sense of written words in Bosavi Pragmatics 5 2 225 244 Schieffelin Bambi B 2000 Introducing Kaluli Literacy A Chronology of Influences In Regimes of Language P Kroskrity ed Pp 293 327 Santa Fe School of American Research Press a b Schieffelin Bambi B 2002 Marking time The dichotomizing discourse of multiple temporalities Current Anthropology 43 Supplement S5 17 a b Schieffelin Bambi B 2006 PLENARY ADDRESS Found in translating Reflexive language across time and texts in Bosavi PNG Twelve Annual Conference on Language Interaction and Culture University of California Los Angeles 2006 Silverstein Michael 1979 Language Structure and Linguistic Ideology In The Elements A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels R Cline W Hanks and C Hofbauer eds Pp 193 247 Chicago Chicago Linguistic Society Rumsey Alan 1990 Word meaning and linguistic ideology American Anthropologist 92 2 346 361 doi 10 1525 aa 1990 92 2 02a00060 Silverstein Michael 1985 Language and the Culture of Gender At the Intersection of Structure Usage and Ideology In Semiotic Mediation Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives E Mertz and R Parmentier eds Pp 219 259 Orlando Academic Press Woolard Kathryn A 2004 Codeswitching In Companion to Linguistic Anthropology A Duranti ed Pp 73 94 Malden Blackwell Kroskrity Paul V 1998 Arizona Tewa Kiva Speech as a Manifestation of Linguistic Ideology In Language ideologies Practice and theory B B Schieffelin K A Woolard and P Kroskrity eds Pp 103 122 New York Oxford University Press Braj B Kachru 2005 Asian Englishes Beyond the Canon Hong Kong University Press ISBN 978 962 209 665 3 David Crystal 2014 Language Death Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 1 107 43181 2 Guardado Martin 2018 Discourse Ideology and Heritage Language Socialization Micro and Macro Perspectives New York amp Berlin De Gruyter Mouton Duranti Alessandro 1992 Language and Bodies in Social Space Samoan Greetings American Anthropologist 94 657 691 doi 10 1525 aa 1992 94 3 02a00070 Errington J Joseph 1988 Structure and Style in Javanese A Semiotic View of Linguistic Etiquette Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania a b Silverstein Michael 2004 Cultural Concepts and the Language Culture Nexus Current Anthropology 45 5 621 652 Wilce James M 2006 Magical Laments and Anthropological Reflections The Production and Circulation of Anthropological Text as Ritual Activity Current Anthropology 47 6 891 914 The Cambridge handbook of endangered languages Austin Peter Sallabank Julia Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011 ISBN 9781139068987 OCLC 939637358 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link Woodbury Anthony C 2011 Language documentation The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages Cambridge University Press pp 159 186 doi 10 1017 cbo9780511975981 009 ISBN 9780511975981 Hinton Leanne 2011 Revitalization of endangered languages in Austin Peter K Sallabank Julia eds The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages Cambridge University Press pp 291 311 doi 10 1017 cbo9780511975981 015 ISBN 9780511975981 retrieved 2019 10 08 Hornberger Nancy H De Korne Haley Weinberg Miranda 2016 01 02 Ways of Talking and Acting About Language Reclamation An Ethnographic Perspective on Learning Lenape in Pennsylvania Journal of Language Identity amp Education 15 1 44 58 doi 10 1080 15348458 2016 1113135 ISSN 1534 8458 S2CID 146277852 Leonard Wesley Y 2012 09 10 Reframing language reclamation programmes for everybody s empowerment Gender and Language 6 2 339 367 doi 10 1558 genl v6i2 339 Granadillo Tania Orcutt Gachiri Heidi A 1970 2011 Ethnographic contributions to the study of endangered languages University of Arizona Press ISBN 9780816526994 OCLC 769275666 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Further reading EditMain article Bibliography of anthropology Ahearn Laura M 2011 Living Language An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Malden MA Wiley Blackwell Blount Ben G ed 1995 Language Culture and Society A Book of Readings Prospect Heights IL Waveland Bonvillain Nancy 1993 Language culture and communication The meaning of messages Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Brenneis Donald and Ronald K S Macaulay 1996 The matrix of language Contemporary linguistic anthropology Boulder Westview Duranti Alessandro 1997 Linguistic Anthropology Cambridge Cambridge University Press Duranti Alessandro ed 2001 Linguistic Anthropology A Reader Malden MA Blackwell Giglioli Pier Paolo 1972 Language and social context Selected readings Middlesex Penguin Books Salzmann Zdenek James Stanlaw and Nobuko Adachi 2012 Language culture amp society Westview Press External links EditSociety for Linguistic AnthropologyDownloadable publications of authors cited in the article Alessandro Duranti s publications Joel Kuipers publications Elinor Ochs publications Bambi Schieffelin s publications James Wilce s publicationsThe Jurgen Trabant Wilhelm von Humboldt Lectures 7hrs https webtv univ rouen fr permalink c1253a18f7e5ecnge8dp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Linguistic anthropology amp oldid 1168191719, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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