Social anthropology and language

London : Tavistock, 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall.  Series: A.S.A. Mmonographs 10. Physical description: cii, 318 p., plate : ill. (incl 1 col.) ; 23 cm. Notes: '... 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."" Includes bibliography and index. 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); Language and languages; SociolinguisticsSociolinguistics Addresses, essays, lectures; Language and languages; Anthropology; Anthropological linguistics; Art Drawing; Indigenous peoples Africa; Language Bilingualism and multilingualism; Language Semantics; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax; Oral communication Society.