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Key Terms in Language and Culture
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ISBN10: 0631226656
ISBN13: 9780631226659
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Jan 19 2001
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780631226659
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Jan 19 2001
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Key Terms in Language and Culture is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, and covering the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. Together these essays provide a lexicon of language from an anthropological perspective. Each essay includes a brief description of a key concept, the issues associated with the concept, and the major contributions to its study. There is a set of suggested readings at the end of each essay that provides readers with a good starting point for a further study.
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