The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking book offers a unique perspective on how language facilit...Lasīt vairāk
Going Tactile is an ethnographic exploration of life in DeafBlind communities in the U.S. during a time when political efforts were shifting away from gaining access to visual worlds and toward the discovery of new, tactile worlds. In the years lead...Lasīt vairāk
The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking work of linguistic anthropology offers a unique perspec...Lasīt vairāk
Living together across borders: Separated Salvadoran families and the power of everyday conversation presents a multisited ethnography of communication in extended families living stretched between El Salvador and the United States. The book examine...Lasīt vairāk
Living Together Across Borders: Care Through Communication in Separated Salvadoran Families tells the stories of extended families living stretched between a rural Salvadoran village and the urban locations in the United States where their m...Lasīt vairāk
Nahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nahuatl language and the Mexican Nation that claims it as an important national symbol. Author Ma...Lasīt vairāk
Nahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nahuatl language and the Mexican Nation that claims it as an important national symbol. Author Ma...Lasīt vairāk
In the 1990s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle (people who started out as Deaf children, acquired American Sign Language, and eventually became blind) called into question the communitys dependence on sighted interpreters, and sought ne...Lasīt vairāk
What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system i...Lasīt vairāk
What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system i...Lasīt vairāk
In 1885, Henri Bergson addressed a class of French high school students on the subject of politeness. Bergson would go on to become one of the most influential philosophers of his time, yet although this essay set forth a striking theory of politenes...Lasīt vairāk
The Eskayan language of Bohol in the southern Philippines has been an object of controversy ever since it came to light in the early 1980s. Written in an unusual script Eskayan bears no obvious similarity to any known language of the Philippines, a...Lasīt vairāk
The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines. After Eskaya people were first discovered...Lasīt vairāk
In 1885, Henri Bergson addressed a class of French high school students on the subject of politeness. Bergson would go on to become one of the most influential philosophers of his time, yet although this essay set forth a striking theory of politenes...Lasīt vairāk
