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Author Silver, Shirley.

Title American Indian languages : cultural and social contexts / Shirley Silver and Wick R. Miller
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 433 pages) : maps
Contents Part I. Overview. Ch. 1. Languages and their status -- Part II. Languages and structures. Ch. 2. Languages and structures -- Part III. Languages and cultural domains. Ch. 3. Languages and cultural domains -- Part IV. Languages and social domains. Ch. 4. Languages and social organization -- Ch. 5. Performers and performances -- Ch. 6. Fashions of speaking -- Ch. 7. Nonverbal communication -- Ch. 8. The written word -- Part V. Languages in contact. Ch. 9. Multilingualism -- Ch. 10. Lingua francas -- Ch. 11. Language contact -- Part VI. Languages in time and space. Ch. 12. Languages and shared histories -- Ch. 13. The use of language as a tool for prehistory -- Ch. 14. Spread and distribution of language families
Summary This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-424) and index
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Subject Indians -- Languages -- Social aspects
Indians -- Languages -- Grammar, Comparative
Anthropological linguistics -- America
Indians -- Social life and customs
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Anthropological linguistics.
Indians -- Languages -- Grammar, Comparative.
Indians -- Languages -- Social aspects.
Indians -- Social life and customs.
Indianentalen.
Culturele aspecten.
Ethnolinguistique -- Amérique du Nord.
America.
Indianersprachen.
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, Wick R.
ISBN 9780816543342
0816543348