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Ethnosyntax

N. J. Enfield
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      This book provides a fresh and original approach to the 'ethnosyntax' concept - the proposition that the grammar of a language is intimately linked to the culture of its speakers. It focuses on three related questions: how far culture accounts for linguistic variation; how culture and grammar are connected; and to what extent one may constitute the other. It looks, for example, at the ways in which grammatical (including semantic) resources may be constrained bysocial values, and at the possible sociocultural significance of grammatical devices. The chapters add up to an important and timely contribution to the renewed debate among linguists and anthropologists on the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition. The authors represent a wide range of research traditions, some of which have not until now explicitly addressed the grammar and culture issue. They consider the subject in the context of a wide range of cultures in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The clarity and accessibility of their writing, together with DrEnfield's introduction to the field, make this not only a work of original value and impeccable scholarship, but an excellent modern textbook on a subject of enduring fascination in linguistics and anthropology.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: N. J. Enfield EAN: 9780199266500 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 498 g HEIGHT: 233 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-02-26 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, North America (USA and Canada), Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa, Sociolinguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Social and cultural anthropology

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      N. J. Enfield is a staff member in the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. His work in semantic and grammatical description, contact and areal linguistics, gesture, and linguistic anthropology is based upon ongoing fieldwork in mainland Southeast Asia.
      This book provides a fresh and original approach to the 'ethnosyntax' concept - the proposition that the grammar of a language is intimately linked to the culture of its speakers. It focuses on three related questions: how far culture accounts for linguistic variation; how culture and grammar are connected; and to what extent one may constitute the other. It looks, for example, at the ways in which grammatical (including semantic) resources may be constrained bysocial values, and at the possible sociocultural significance of grammatical devices. The chapters add up to an important and timely contribution to the renewed debate among linguists and anthropologists on the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition. The authors represent a wide range of research traditions, some of which have not until now explicitly addressed the grammar and culture issue. They consider the subject in the context of a wide range of cultures in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The clarity and accessibility of their writing, together with DrEnfield's introduction to the field, make this not only a work of original value and impeccable scholarship, but an excellent modern textbook on a subject of enduring fascination in linguistics and anthropology.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: N. J. Enfield EAN: 9780199266500 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 498 g HEIGHT: 233 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-02-26 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, North America (USA and Canada), Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa, Sociolinguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Social and cultural anthropology

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      N. J. Enfield is a staff member in the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. His work in semantic and grammatical description, contact and areal linguistics, gesture, and linguistic anthropology is based upon ongoing fieldwork in mainland Southeast Asia.

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