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Anthropological Linguistics

An Introduction

Foley, William

Language in Society

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1. Edition June 1997
514 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-15122-7
John Wiley & Sons

It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalised forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics normally treated under the rubric of language and culture.

Preface.

Part I: Introduction.

Part II: The Evolution of Language.

Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind.

Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on
Mind.

Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking.

Part VI: Culture and Language Change.

References.

Index.
"Foley's book illustrates quite convincingly that 'Linguistics
without anthropology is sterile, anthropology without linguistics
is blind'(Hockett 1973: 675)" Gunter Senft, Max-Planck-Institute
for Psycholinguistics

"I applaud Foley for having overcome one of the main constraints
of structuralist - inspired approaches to analysis." Peter
Muhlhausler, University of Adelaide
William A. Foley is Professor of Lingusitics at the University of Sydney. He is author of Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar (with R. van Valin) and The Papuan Languages fo New Guinea, and editor of The Role of Theory in Language Description.

W. Foley, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia