Language, Culture, and Society

1. Acquiring and using language(s): life with first languages, second languages, and more.

2. Language through time

3. Language in variation and language in contact

4. The ethnography of communication

5. Culture as cognition, culture as categorization: meaning and language in the conceptual world.

6. Language, identity, and ideology

6.1. Variations in gender

6.2. Variation in class, "race", ethnicity, and nationality

7. Introducing linguistic anthropology

7.1. "Linguistic anthropologists view language in its cultural framework and are connected with the rules for its social use" (Stanlaw et al.13)

7.2. This chapter shows some basic information about "modern myths concerning languages" (Stanlaw et al. 2), "a brief history of anthropology" (Stanlaw et al. 7), and understanding of "anthropology, linguistics, and linguistic anthropology." (Stanlaw et al.10)

8. Methods of linguistic anthropology

8.1. "Linguistic anthropologists view language in its cultural framework and are concerned with the rules for its social use." (Stanlaw et al.32)

9. The "nut and bolts" of linguistic anthropology

9.1. Language is sound

9.2. Structure of words and sentences

10. Communicating Nonverbally

11. The development and evolution of language: language birth, language growth, and language death.

12. Language, culture, and thought

13. The linguistic anthropology of a globalized and digitalized world