LINGUIST List 21.3355 Fri Aug 20 2010 Books: Sociolinguistics/Typology: Senft Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Julia Ulrich, The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking: Senft Message 1: The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking: Senft Date: 18-Aug-2010 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking: Senft E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 27 Published: 2010 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110227987-1 Author: Gunter Senft Electronic: ISBN: 9783110227994 Pages: 327 Price: Europe EURO 129.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110227987 Pages: 327 Price: Europe EURO 129.95 Abstract: Bronislaw Maliniowski claimed in his monograph "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" that to approach the goal of ethnographic field-work, requires a "collection of ethnographic statements, characteristic narratives, typical utterances, items of folk-lore and magical formulae ... as a "corpus inscriptionum", as documents of native mentality". This book finally meets Malinowski's demand. Based on more than 40 months of field research the author presents, documents and illustrates the Trobriand Islanders' own indigenous typology of text categories or genres, covering the spectrum from ditties children chant while spinning a top, to gossip, songs, tales, and myths. The typology is based on Kilivila metalinguistic terms for these genres, and considers the relationship they have with registers or varieties which are also metalinguistically distinguished by the native speakers of this language. Rooted in the 'ethnography of speaking' paradigm and in the 'anthropological linguistics/linguistic anthropology' approach, the book highlights the relevance of genres for researching the role of language, culture and cognition in social interaction, and demonstrates the importance of understanding genres for achieving linguistic and cultural competence. In addition to the data presented in the book, its readers have the opportunity to access the original audio- and video-data presented via the internet on a special website, which mirrors the structure of the book. Thus, the reader can check the transcriptions against the original data recordings. This makes the volume particularly valuable for teaching purposes in (general, Austronesian/ Oceanic, documentary, and anthropological) linguistics and ethnology. Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics                             Typology                             Applied Linguistics                             Language and Social Interaction Subject Language(s): Kilivila (kij) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=50007 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. 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