Description: LANGUAGE IN CULTURE & SOCIETY: A Reader In Linguistics & AnthropologyEdited By Dell Hymes; Foreword by A.L. KroeberPublished by New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964., 1964RICH AND HEAVY BOOK, A well researched language study that shows cultural and cross-cultural sources and influences that effected language in numerous areas around the world. This comprehensive work on language and linguistics focuses on anthropological origins that are rich in cross-cultural content, on methodology in semantics, on social variations in speech, and includes material on verbal art and language change. Words, phrases, sources, oral poets, expressive speech, slang, pitch, sounds, language merging, the melting pot, and regional differences are all examined. Enhanced with figures, and phonetic and vocalization symbols. Unusual in such nice condition in dust jacket. Large octavo; 764 pages; bibliography; index of references; index of authors; index to topical bibliographies; index of language names.
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Year Printed: 1964
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Linguistics and Anthropology
Binding: Hardcover in dust jacket
Printing Year: 1964
Author: Dell Hymes
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers
Place of Publication: New York
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
