Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blount, Ben G

Titel

Sociolinguistic theory in anthropology

Ist Teil von

• International journal of the sociology of language, 1981-01, Vol.31, p.91-108

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

1981

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Theoretical goals of sociolinguistic research in anthropology are discussed, focusing on the period 1960-1980. The common goal of descriptive adequacy for speech behavior is ascribed to several speech component & processual models developed during this time; particular attention is given to Haver C. Currie's early studies (eg, Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, 1978) & to Roman Jakobson's speech event model. The emergence of ethnographic semantics (Gumperz, John & Hymes, Dell, The Ethnography of Communication, New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1972) is also reviewed, recommending greater focus on social interaction as a means to improved ethnographic methods. L. Whittemore.