Electronic book available via De Gruyter website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Preface -- Part I: Outlining anthropological linguistics -- 1 Studying the relationship of language and culture: Scope and directions / Nico Nassenstein & Svenja Völkel -- Part II: Fields of research -- 2 Language acquisition and language socialization / Birgit Hellwig -- 3 Language endangerment and reclamation / David Bradley -- 4 Emerging languages and the creation of new communicative styles / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- 5 Language ideologies and social identities / Paul V. Kroskrity -- 6 Conversational organization and genre / Christian Meyer & Benjamin Quasinowski -- 7 Gesture, sign languages and multimodality / Susanne Mohr & Anastasia Bauer -- 8 On ritual speech: Epistemologies, history, and the social order / David Tavarez -- 9 The unspoken / Alice Mitchell & Anne Storch -- 10 Social indexicality / Luke Fleming -- 11 Time: Sociocultural structuring beyond the spatialization paradigm / Vera da Silva Sinha -- 12 Emotional language: A brief history of recent research / Maïa Ponsonnet -- Part III: Areal perspectives -- 13 Research on language and culture in Africa / Felix K. Ameka & Azeb Amha -- 14 Native North America: Notes towards a dialogical ethnopoetics / Rex Lee Jim & Antony K. Webster -- 15 Perspectivism through language: A view from Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- 16 Recent research on language and culture in Australia and Oceania / Alan Rumsey, Ruth Singer & Matt Tomlinson -- 17 Language and culture in Mainland Southeast Asia / N. J. Enfield & Jack Sidnell -- 18 Research on language and culture in Europe / James W. Underhill & Adam Glaz -- Part IV: Outlook -- 19 The language-culture dimension: A space for challenges and opportunities / Andrea Hollington

"This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics." -- Provided by publisher.