Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship among the Mopan Maya
Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods. In doing so she contributes not only to theoretical semantics and the ethnography of that area, but to the cross-cultural study of child development and language acquisition.
This collection of recent essays (arranged in order of composition) touches on questions of comparative syntax (including intralanguage comparative syntax), on questions of silent elements (relevant to both syntax and semantics), on questions concerning the relation (or competition) between syntax and morphology.
Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic FieldworkThe Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork is the most comprehensive reference on linguistic fieldwork on the market bringing together all the reader needs to carry out successful linguistic fieldwork. Based on the experiences of two veteran linguistic fieldworkers and advice from more than a twenty active fieldwork researchers, this handbook provides an encyclopedic review of current publications on linguistic fieldwork and surveys past and present approaches and solutions to problems in the field, and the historical, political, and social variables correlating with fieldwork in different areas of the world.
The Glossary meets the present-day requirements and establishes the foundational terms and concepts of intercultural communication. It is expected to become an essential resource for students, lecturers and practitioners interested in the conceptual foundations of the study of intercultural communication.
The Structure of Language: An Introduction to Grammatical Analysis
Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity we are undertaking, forming words and sentences in a split second. This book introduces the analysis of language structure, combining both description and theory within a single, practical text. It begins by examining words and parts of words, and then looks at how words work together to form sentences that communicate meaning. Sentence patterns across languages are also studied, looking at the similarities and the differences we find in how languages communicate meaning.
