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Paperback Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation Book

ISBN: 0688149499

ISBN13: 9780688149499

Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation

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Book Overview

The key to communication, says linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar, is understanding the context and culture of conversation. In Language Shock, Agar reveals how deeply our language and cultural values intertwine to define who we are and how we relate to one another. From paying an electric bill in Austria to opening a bank account in Mexico to handling a parking ticket in the United States, he shows how routine tasks become lessons in the subtleties of conversation when we venture outside our cultural sphere. With humorous, insightful stories from his extensive travels, Agar engages us in a lively study of languaculture and enriches our view of the world. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Used it for school, lot of good information on this book, knowing about your culture and how important it is to know.

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Language Shock

The price of this book was so much lower than anywhere else and it arrived much more quickly than I expected. The condition was just perfect. I was so pleased.

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Fantastic Read!

I highly recommend this book to anybody with an interest in getting a rudimentary introduction to the ways in which language and culture intermesh. I read it as part of a class at the UMD, though I didn't take it with Agar, and it was one of my most favorite parts of the class. I think it deserves credit as a book that's enjoyable, not just educational. There's a very short list of the books I've read for classes that were...

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Insight into other cultures

"Language Shock" helped me to understand my experience of living in a foreign land -- China, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Agar's inights drawn the fields of anthropology and linguistics gave me a way of processing the "rich points" of those cultures. Since first reading the book a few years ago I have studied linguistics in more depth, and I have to say that Agar's approach to langauge and culture is still one of the...

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