CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS OF LOCAL LINGUISTIC COMMUNITIES
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Anthropology
- Vol. 27 (1) , 401-426
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.401
Abstract
▪ Abstract An emergent focus of linguistic anthropological research is discernible in the investigation of the causes and consequences of contact of local language communities with forces of the wider polities in which they have become incorporated. This focus can be sketched by surveying a number of its component conceptual approaches, such as anthropological linguistics, ethnography of communication, variationist sociolinguistics, and the sociology and politics of languages. Its consideration of language as a total cultural fact is outlined by reference to studies that differentially emphasize language structure, entextualization/contextualization of language, and language ideology.Keywords
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