LINGUIST List 26.4217

Fri Sep 25 2015

Books: Where is Language?: Finnegan

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>

Date: 11-Sep-2015
From: Lianna Iwanikiw <lianna.iwanikiwbloomsbury.com>
Subject: Where is Language?: Finnegan
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Title: Where is Language?
Subtitle: An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance
Published: 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/where-is-language-9781472590930/

Author: Ruth Finnegan
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472590947 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 18.99 Comment: EPUB
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472590954 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 18.99 Comment: EPDF
Hardback: ISBN: 9781472590923 Pages: 176 Price: U.K. £ 54.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781472590930 Pages: 176 Price: U.K. £ 18.99
Abstract:

Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the mind or in speech?

For too long, ethnographic, aesthetic and sociolinguistic studies of language have remained apart from analyses emerging from traditions such as literature and performance. Where is Language? argues for a more complex and contextualized understanding of language across this range of disciplines, engaging with key issues, including orality, literacy, narrative, ideology, performance and the human communities in which these take place.

Eminent anthropologist Ruth Finnegan draws together a lifetime of ethnographic case studies, reading and personal commentary to explore the roles and nature of language in cultures across the world, from West Africa to the South Pacific. By combining research and reflections, Finnegan discusses the multi-modality of language to provide an account not simply of vocabulary and grammar, but one which questions the importance of cultural settings and the essence of human communication itself.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                            Ling & Literature
                            Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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