Social anthropology and language / edited by Edwin Ardener

London : Tavistock Publications, 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: cii, 318 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Summary: Includes contribution; E. Ardener - Introductory essay; social anthropology and language; Part I, Social anthropology, language, and sociolinguistics; H. Henson - Early British anthropologists and language; R.H. Robins - Malinowski, Firth, and the context of situation; D. Hymes - Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking; J.B. Pride Customs and cases of verbal behaviour; Part II, Multilingualism and social categories W.H. Whiteley - A note on multilingualism; E. Tonkin - Some coastal pidgins of West Africa; N. Denison - Some observations on language variety and pluralingualism; D. Crystal - Prosodic and paralinguistic correlates of social categories; Part III, Social anthropology and language models; E. Ardener Social anthropology and the historicity of historical linguistics; G.B. Milner - The quartered shield; outline of a semantic taxonomy; C. Humphrey - Some ideas of Saussure applied to Buryat magical drawings; Material derived from Association of Social Anthropologists sponsored conference on linguistics and social anthropology held at Brighton, April 1969. Notes: ""Distributed in the USA by Barnes & Noble""--Title page verso. ""Derives mainly from papers presented at a conference on linguistics and social anthropology sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth and held 9-12 April 1969 at the University of Sussex""--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Introductory essay: social anthropology and language / Edwin Ardener -- pt. 1. Social anthropology, language, and sociolinguistics: Early British anthropologists and language / Hilary Henson -- Malinowski, Firth, and the 'context of situation' / R.H. Robins -- Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking / Dell Hymes -- Customs and cases of verbal behaviour / J.B. Pride -- pt. 2. Multilingualism and social categories: A note on multilingualism / W.H. Whiteley -- Some coastal pidgins of West Africa / Elizabeth Tonkin -- Some observations on language variety and plurilingualism / N. Denison -- Prosodic and paralinguistic correlates of social categories / D. Crystal -- pt. 3. Social anthropology and language models: Social anthropology and the historicity of historical linguistics / Edwin Ardener -- The quartered shield: outline of a semantic taxonomy / G.B. Milner -- Some ideas of Saussure applied to Buryat magical drawings / Caroline Humphrey. Subjects: Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference 1969 Brighton, England. Conference. Social anthropology and language (1969: University of Sussex). Sociolinguistics; Congresses. Language Sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics. Genre: Bibliography.