Language and Culture in Dialogue

by Pamela J Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart

Book Overview

In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between "language in particular" and "culture in general" by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367785722
• ISBN13: 9780367785727
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"