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The new edition of this highly successful, student-centered text fully engages students by emphasizing contemporary issues and the application of linguistic anthropology. Students easily learn from real-life chapter-opening vignettes ("In the Field"), and the boxed features that provide concrete examples of "Doing Linguistic Anthropology" and "Cross-Language Miscommunication." This edition continues to use a holistic framework to discuss the three key areas of linguistic anthropology -- historical linguistics, structural linguistics, and sociolinguistics -- and provides more emphasis on methodology, skills, techniques, tools, and applications, including new sidebars, more visuals, and more examples from different languages.
- Sales Rank: #487830 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .70" h x 6.20" w x 9.00" l, 1.16 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 372 pages
About the Author
Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer, professor emeritus of anthropology at Kansas State University, received a B.A. at Bennington College and a Ph.D. at Tulane University. She has taught linguistic anthropology for over 30 years. Her research interests include music, language, and other creative and performative expressions, particularly in African American and African cultures. In addition to extended periods of field research in New Orleans and the Comoro Islands, Dr. Ottenheimer has traveled and lectured widely throughout many other parts of the world. She has special interests in blues, autobiography, transcription, dictionary construction, fieldwork ethics, and ethnicity. Among her publications are COUSIN JOE: BLUES FROM NEW ORLEANS (with Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph), a blues singer's autobiography; THE HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE COMORO ISLANDS (with Martin Ottenheimer), an encyclopedia; MUSIC OF THE COMORO ISLANDS: DOMONI (also with Martin Ottenheimer), in vinyl, cassette, and CD formats; and SHINZWANI-ENGLISH/ENGLISH-SHINZWANI DICTIONARY, a bilingual, bidirectional dictionary. She has taught at the University of New Orleans, at Charles University in Prague (on a visiting Fulbright appointment), and at Kansas State University. At KSU she was the founding director of the interdisciplinary American Ethnic Studies Program, teaching introductory and advanced courses in that program, as well as in cultural and linguistic anthropology. Dr. Ottenheimer has received the Kansas State University President's Award for Distinguished Service to Minority Education, and the Charles Irby Award for Distinguished Service to the National Association for Ethnic Studies. She has served as president of the National Association for Ethnic Studies and the Central States Anthropological Association. She speaks five languages: English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Shinzwani. She is attempting to learn to speak and read Czech.
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Anthropology of Language
By Bromor
This book was required for my Anthropology of Language and Culture class. While it was a tad dry at times, it has solid examples and was overall helpful to my learning process. If it is required for a class definitely purchase this book without hesitation. Also if you're interested in the Anthropology of Language this book will be VERY interesting to you, as it was to me. A safe buy to say the least!
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Great book!
By Rianna
This book is great, easy to read and involving. I knew nothing about linguistics or anthropology and started reading this book for a class, and I can't put it down. I look forward to my homework. The book tells consepts then explains them with stories and definitions. this helps with learning, interest and remembering.
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An excellent gateway into the world of Linguistic Anthropology illustrating how language is part of culture
By The Old Prof
This book is a student’s “how to” portal into the world of Linguistic Anthropology. The author calls it a “workbook/reader.” Each chapter is a focus on a topic and there are a total of 10 chapters. Chapter 1, “Linguistic Anthropology” sets the context for the entire book. Each chapter is structured with short treatises followed by a brief “Doing Linguistic Anthropology” including a dedicated section entitled “In the Field” drawing from Ottenheimer’s field notes and colleagues or students involved. Each chapter contains a summary, a list of key terms, a selected annotated bibliology for further reading, and concludes with student activities. At the end of the book there is a glossary of terms from pp. 263-278, a general bibliography from pp. 279-286, and an index from pp. 289-310. Sprinkled throughout the book the author provides the user with weblinks (in the “http:” version not the “https” version).
The author deals with such topics as language and culture, sounds, words and sentences, language in action, non-verbal communication (kinesics), writing and literacy, how and when language is possible (i.e. the most ancient date of language—which she places at approximately 125,000 to 100,000 years ago) [p. 198 and 201], language change, and a final chapter on doing linguistic anthropology.
Ottenheimer, at the outset, states her purpose for this student book: “What is linguistic anthropology, and why do anthropologists need it? Linguistic anthropology draws from a remarkable combination of disciplines. Taking its clue from the even broader discipline of anthropology, of which it is a part, linguistic anthropology reaches out in every direction to make sense of language in every sense of the word. Linguistic anthropology goes beyond analyzing the structure and patterning of language (a central focus of linguistics) to examine the contexts and situations in which language is used. It looks at how language might have begun; how it is learned; how it changes; and how it is written down, read, and played with. And it wonders whether speaking different languages causes humans to view the world differently from one another. In this book, we will explore some of these directions and provide a basic understanding of the general field of linguistic anthropology, particularly in the context of anthropology.” [Ottenheimer’s emphasis.]
Further, Ottenheimer presents an interesting section on “Testing Linguistic Determinism” (pp. 26-29). What is the relationship of language and culture: Ottenheimer quotes Kenneth L. Pike (Pike was head of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Norman, Oklahoma and professor of linguistics and phonemics at the University of Michigan. [note by reviewer]) as follows: “[C]ulture had to be viewed in relation to the people who utilized their units within that culture. What was crucial to them? What kind of ‘native reaction’ made one item relevant and another one not noticed? These items forced us to look at the analogue of ‘phonemics’ in anthropology, and we needed to build on our experience with phonemic analysis.” (cited by Ottenheimer. p. 54). In other words, linguistic anthropology does not compartmentalize language from the culture within which it is used—preferring, rather, to understand that language as an extension and part of the culture that made it.
It must be emphasized that this book is only a general introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology. Thus, although she introduces lists of technical terms the student should learn at the ends of each of the chapters, and although she has discussed Kenneth Pike’s contributions, “tagmemics” (one of Pike’s terms of study) is not included in the list at the end of chapter three (see p. 57); however, the crucial “etics” and “emics” terms are to be found both in the listing at the end of chapter three and in the glossary.
The chapter entitled “Change and Choice” has a fascinating discussion of Morris Swadesh’s proposal for glottochronology, using words as culture free as possible, in which she notes that more recent research into that field suggests that—at the most—the “time depth” must be 9,000 years for Indo-Eurpoean language change. If this is correct for all such language study then those who suggest that we can reconstruct the language of Adam and Eve have not taken language change adequately into account. (See my review of Nicholas Wade, BEFORE THE DAWN: RECOVERING THE LOST HISTORY OF OUR ANCESTORS).
For students of Linguistic Anthropology, this is a valuable introduction to the field.
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