The book for the student who studies in the social and cultural foundations language

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"Language and Social Relations is the most comprehensive and broad-ranging synthesis to date of a particular perspective on the study of language use..."
-Kwai Hang Ng, American Journal of Sociology

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Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This original study explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, and hierarchies. Drawing on data from over thirty different languages and societies, it shows how language is more than simply a form of social action; it is also an effective tool with which we formulate models of social life and conduct. These models - or particular forms of social behaviour - are linked to the classification of 'types' of action or actor, and are passed 'reflexively' from person to person, and from generation to generation. Providing a novel and unified way of accounting for a variety of social phenomena, this book will be welcomed by all those interested in the interaction between language, culture, and society.
Offers a surprisingly comprehensive view of language in society, one that works in some of the fundamental insights and concepts of linguistic anthropology, like indexicality, performativity, and other buzzwords.

metapragmatic stereotypes, denotational stereotypes, interactional tropes, fractional congruence, characterological figures, metasemiotic discourses, stereotypic denotation, denotational norms, metapragmatic data, performable signs, phonolexical registers, role inhabitance, honorific lexemes, demeanor indexicals, denotational correctness, metasemiotic activity, metasemiotic treatment, stereotypic values, metapragmatic typifications, conjoined focus, denotational units, hijrah village, lexemic forms, metadiscursive labels, stereotypic emblems