Language in Culture
Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 22 December 2022
- ISBN 9781009198844
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages250 pages
- Size 229x154x17 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English 516
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Short description:
Shows how identities, cultural categories and social groupings are forged semiotically, via dynamic, more or less subtle discursive rituals.
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Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (1945-2020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures.&&&160;Focusing not just on what people say but&&&160;how&&&160;we say it, Silverstein shows how discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that discourse&&&160;far exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity.&&&160;Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose, Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples - from brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau's&&&160;pantomime, the class-laced banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on forebears&&&160;in linguistics and anthropology while offering his distinctive semiotic approach, redefining&&&160;how we think about language and culture.
'Brilliant, comprehensive, and always thought-provoking, Language in Culture is a truly singular contribution. Silverstein has brought his subtle and elegantly laid-out theoretical approach together with the acute and generative exploration of detailed exemplary cases - and always in his own distinctive and engaging voice. This is bound to be an immediate classic of lasting resonance.' Don Brenneis, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
Table of Contents:
List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Getting - and getting across - the message; Lecture 1: Text; Lecture 2: Event; Lecture 3: Context; Lecture 4: Enregisterment; Lecture 5: Variation; Lecture 6: Categoriality; Lecture 7: Relativity; Lecture 8: Knowledge; Editorial acknowledgments; References; Index.
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