Linguistic Anthropology Resources

Back in April at Norwescon I promised some wonderful woman I would send her a list of my linguistics resources from the classes I took. I never, ever did that because I fail at such things all too often.

So now, to correct for it, here are the titles I promised.



Books:

• The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer


• Describing Discourse: A Practical Guide to Discourse Analysis by Nicola Woods


• Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology by Keith H. Basso

Essays, Excerpts, and Articles:

• Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Lingustics, Chapter 1: General Principles


• "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals" by Carol Cohn, published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society


• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, Chapters 1-3


• "A Linguistic Big Bang" by Lawrence Osborne, published in the NY Times


• "Chimp Talk Debate: Is It Really Language?" by George Johnson


• "Linguistic, Cultural and Cognitive Capacities of Bonobos" by Savage-Rumbaugh and Fields


• "Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications" by Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin, Chapter 11


• "Norm-Makers, Norm-Breakers: Uses of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community" by Elinor Keenan, published in Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking


• Native Language Preservation: A Reference Guide for Establishing Archives and Repositories by A.N.A.


• "After near-extinction, tribes are reviving Native languages" by Brendan McLaughlin, published in Colors NW Magazine, Aug. 2003


• "the political topography of Spanish and english: the view from a New York Puerto Rican neighborhood" by Bonnie Urciuoli, published in American Ethnologist, vol. 18 no.2, 1991


• "Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters" by Benjamin Bailey, published in Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, 2001


• English with an Accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States by Rosina Lippi-Green, 1997, Chapter 3


• "Language that dare not speak its name" by Geoffrey Pullum, published as commentary in Nature, vol 386, Mar. 1997


• "The African American Speech Community: Reality and Sociolinguistics" by Marcyliena H. Morgan


• Extract from Language and Woman's Place by Robin Lakoff, featured in A Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader, 1990


• "'Women's Language' or 'Powerless Language'?" by William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins, published in Language and Gender: A Reader, 1978


• Mythologies by Roland Barthes, 1970, pps. 9-10, 36-38