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.
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.
- 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