LINGUIST List 17.3662

Mon Dec 11 2006

Books: Sociolinguistics: Agha

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Directory         1.    Daniel Davies, Language and Social Relations: Agha

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Message 1: Language and Social Relations: Agha
Date: 06-Dec-2006
From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org>
Subject: Language and Social Relations: Agha


Title: Language and Social Relations Series Title: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 24 Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Asif Agha Hardback: ISBN: 0521571766 Pages: 446 Price: U.S. $ 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521571766 Pages: 446 Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521576857 Pages: 446 Price: U.S. $ 34.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521576857 Pages: 446 Price: U.K. £ 18.99
Abstract:

Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the mediumthrough which we participate in a variety of social activities. Thisoriginal study explores the important role of language in various aspectsof our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship,status, and hierarchies. Drawing on data from over thirty differentlanguages and societies, it shows how language is more than simply a formof social action; it is also an effective tool with which we formulatemodels of social life and conduct. These models - or particular forms ofsocial behaviour - are linked to the classification of 'types' of action oractor, and are passed 'reflexively' from person to person, and fromgeneration to generation. Providing a novel and unified way of accountingfor a variety of social phenomena, this book will be welcomed by all thoseinterested in the interaction between language, culture, and society.

1. Reflexivity;2. From referring to registers;3. Register formations;4. The social life of cultural value;5. Regrouping identity;6. Registers of person deixis;7. Honorific registers;8. Norm and trope in kinship behaviour.


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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