Language, Culture, and Communication

The Meaning of Messages

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Language, Culture, and Communication

The Meaning of Messages

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Description

Language, Culture, and Communication introduces students to the topics and theories of the broad field of linguistic anthropology by examining the multifaceted meanings and uses of language. It emphasizes the ways in which language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions. Through language structure and language use, speakers convey messages about their own identities, their understandings of the world and their place in it. The book includes discussion of cultural and symbolic meanings conveyed by language and the social and political dimensions of language use.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Form of the Message
Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Meaning
Chapter 4: Contextual Components: Outline of an Ethnography of Communication
Chapter 5: Communicative Interactions
Chapter 6: Digital Communications and Signed Languages
Chapter 7: Learning Language
Chapter 8: The Acquisition of Communicate Competence
Chapter 9: Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation: Class and Race
Chapter 10: Language and Gender
Chapter 11: Multilingual Nations
Chapter 12: Multilingual Communities
Chapter 13: Language and Institutional Encounters

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 05 Feb 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 9th
Extent 432
ISBN 9798216200635
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 30 bw illus, 5 bw photos
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Nancy Bonvillain

Nancy Bonvillain is professor of anthropology and…

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