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MakingSenseofLanguage
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ReadingsinCultureandCommunication
EditedbySusanD.Blum
ISBN13:9780199840922 ISBN10:019984092X

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*INDICATESREADINGSTHATARENEWTOTHISEDITION PARTITHENATUREOFLANGUAGE Unit1WhatIsLanguage? 1.RobbinsBurling,Smiles,Winks,andWords. 2.FerdinanddeSaussure,NatureoftheLinguisticSign Unit2LanguageOrigins 3.CharlesHockett,TheOriginofSpeech 4.WilliamC.Stokoe,SigningandSpeaking:Competitors,Alternatives,or Incompatibles? *5.DerekBickerton,SymbolandStructure:AComprehensiveFrameworkforLanguage Evolution Unit3LanguageandThought 6.BenjaminLeeWhorf,TheRelationofHabitualThoughtandBehaviortoLanguage 7.GeorgeLakoffandMarkJohnson,MetaphorsWeLiveBy 8.StephenC.Levinson,LanguageandMind:Let'sGettheIssuesStraight! Unit4LanguageSocialization *9.ElinorOchsandBambiB.Schieffelin,LanguageAcquisitionandSocialization:Three DevelopmentalStoriesandTheirImplications *10.ShirleyBriceHeath,WhatNoBedtimeStoryMeans:NarrativeSkillsatHomeandat School *11.PatriciaBaquedanoLopez,ThePragmaticsofReadingPrayers:LearningtheActof ContritioninSpanishbasedReligiousEducationClasses(Doctrina) Unit5(New)Media *12.JohnDeFrancis,WhatIsWriting? *13.MaryanneWolf,HowtheBrainAdaptedItselftoReadandTheBirthofanAlphabet andSocrates'Protests *14.NeilPostman,ThePeekaBooWorld

*15.JohnDurhamPeters,TheQuestforAuthenticConnection *16.DavidCrystal,WhyAlltheFuss? *17.JabariMahiri,LiteraciesintheLivesofUrbanYouth *18.MarshallT.Poe,HomoSomnians:HumanityintheAgeoftheInternet PARTIILANGUAGEANDSOCIETY Unit6Multilingualism SocietalMultilingualism 19.TomMcArthur,Chinese,English,SpanishandtheRest 20.EdwinL.Battistella,BadLanguage:BadCitizens *21.Y.Suleiman,LanguageEducationPolicyArabicSpeakingCountries *22.AntheaFraserGupta,TheLanguageEcologyofSingapore IndividualMultilingualism 23.AnaCeliaZentella,Bilingualismencasa *24.InmaculadaM.GarciaSanchez,SeriousGames:CodeSwitchingandGendered IdentitiesinMoroccanImmigrantGirls'PretendPlay LanguageEndangermentandRevitalization 25.JohnH.McWhorter,MostoftheWorld'sLanguagesWentExtinct *26.DonnaPatrick,IndigenousLanguageEndangermentandtheUnfinishedBusinessof NationStates *27.AnnetteBoudreauandLiseDubois,Francais,Acadien,Acadjonne:Competing DiscoursesonLanguagePreservationalongtheShoresoftheBaieSainteMarie *28.Ghil'adZuckermannandMichaelWalsh,Stop,Revive,Survive:Lessonsfromthe HebrewRevivalApplicabletotheReclamation,MaintenanceandEmpowermentof AboriginalLanguagesandCultures Unit7LanguageandIdentity RegionandClass 29.WilliamLabov,TheSocialStratificationof(r)inNewYorkCityDepartmentStores 30.DeborahTannen,NewYorkJewishConversationalStyle *31.WilliamA.Kretzschmar,Jr.RegionalDialects "Race"andEthnicity 32.JohnR.Rickford,SuiteforEbonyandPhonics *33.H.SamyAlim,HipHopNationLanguage *34.RichardRodriguez,Aria Gender 35.WilliamM.O'BarrandBowmanK.Atkins,"Women'sLanguage"or"Powerless Language"? 36.ScottFabiusKiesling,PowerandtheLanguageofMen

*37.KiraHall,"Unnatural"GenderinHindi *38.WilliamLeap,Language,Socialization,andSilenceinGayAdolescence Generation *39.AlexandraD'Arcy,LikeandLanguageIdeology:DisentanglingFactfromFiction *40.ScottF.Kiesling,Dude PARTIIILANGUAGEASSOCIALACTION Unit8Discourse,Performance,andRitual 41.JohnL.Austin,HowtoDoThingswithWords *42.MikhailBakhtin,DiscourseintheNovel 43.SusanD.Blum,NamingPracticesandthePowerofWordsinChina *44.GuyCookandTonyWalter,RewrittenRites:LanguageandSocialRelationsin TraditionalandContemporaryFunerals *45.KatharineYoung,NarrativeEmbodiments:EnclavesoftheSelfintheRealmof Medicine Unit9LanguageIdeology *46.BenjaminBailey,CommunicationofRespectinInterethnicServiceEncounters *47.ChaiseLaDousa,OnMotherandOtherTongues:Sociolinguistics,Schools,and LanguageIdeologyinNorthernIndia 48.KeithBasso,"ToGiveUponWords":SilenceinWesternApacheCulture

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