Readings

Part 1: Introduction: Language, and Anthropology

  • Edward Sapir, “Language Defined,” 1921.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106011236251&view=1up&seq=7

  • Alessandro Duranti, “Language as Culture in U.S. Anthropology: Three Paradigms,” 2003.

https://cuny-bc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_85613359&context=PC&vid=01CUNY_BC:CUNY_BC&lang=en&search_scope=IZ_CI_AW&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Alessandro%20duranti&offset=0

 

Part 2: Language, Culture, and Worldview

  • Edward Sapir, “Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society,” 1929.

https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/Sapir/Sapir_1927_a.html

  • Benjamin Lee Whorf, “The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language,” (1941).

https://archive.org/details/whorf-1941-relation/mode/2up

  • Emily Martin, “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles,” 1991.

https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/Martin1991.pdf

  • Carol Cohn, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals,” 1987.

https://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/migrated/pol179/Cohn.pdf

 

Part 3: Doing Things with Words

  • Jillian Cavanaugh, “Language Ideology,” 2020.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2082/html

  • Chip Zuckerman, “Figure Composition,” 2021.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/715515

  • Susan Gal, “Registers in Circulation,” 2018

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/694551

 

Part 4: Language and Race

  • Frantz Fanon, “The Negro and Language,” 1952

http://abahlali.org/files/fanon_on_language.pdf

  • Samy Alim, “Nah We Straight,” in Articulate While Black, 2012.

https://via.hypothes.is/https://anth1300.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/13111/files/2020/10/Alim-and-Smitherman-2012-Nah-We-Straight-Black-Language-and-Americas-First-Black-President-in-Articulate-While-Black-Barak-Obama-Language-and-Race-in-the-US.pdf

  • Mike Mena, “Language, Race, and White Public Space”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaIly9_umbI

 

Part 5: Language and Identity

  • Cynthia Dunn – “Speaking Politely, Kindly, and Beautifully: Ideologies of Politeness in Japanese Business Etiquette Training,” 2013.

https://scholarworks.uni.edu/sac_facpub/1/

  • Mary Bucholtz, “Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture,” in A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication, 2012.

https://language-culture.binghamton.edu/symposia/7/index.html

  • Asif Agha, “Ideologies and Practices of Identity: Comments on Bucholtz,” 2001

https://language-culture.binghamton.edu/symposia/7/index.html

  • Mary Bucholtz, “Identity and Interaction: A Sociocultural Linguistic Approach,” 2005

https://language-culture.binghamton.edu/symposia/7/index.html

 

Part 6: Language Acquisition

  • Bambi Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs, “Language Acquisition and Socialization,” 1984.

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED252065

  • Netta Avineri, “Bridging the Language Gap,” 2015.

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jola.12071

 

Part 7: Language and Capitalism

  • Ilana Gershon, “I’m Not a Businessman, I’m a Business, Man,” 2016.

https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/hau6.3.017/2568

  • Mike Mena – Ilana Gershon Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nli4M4UShYM