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ANTH 354: Language and Culture (Rev. C9 & C10) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1:

Ottenheimer, Harriet, J., and Judith M. Pine. 2019. “Chapter 1: Linguistic Anthropology.” In The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, 4th ed., 1–17. Boston, MA: Cengage.

Unit 2: The Nature of Communication

Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, Duane Rumbaugh, and William M. Fields. 2009. “Empirical Kanzi: The Ape Language Controversy Revisited.” Skeptic 15, no. 1 (Spring): 25–33.

Unit 3: Origins of Human Language

Ottenheimer, Harriet, J., and Judith M. Pine. 2019. “Chapter 8: How and When Is Language Possible?” In The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, 4th ed., 251–86. Boston: Cengage.
Jackendoff, Ray, and Eva Wittenberg. 2017. “Linear Grammar as a Possible Stepping-Stone in the Evolution of Language.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 24: 219–24.

Unit 4: Language, Culture, and Thought

Ahearn, Laura. 2017. “Chapter 5, Language, Thought, and Culture.” In Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, 2nd ed., 87–116. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Unit 8: Nonverbal Communication

Shahshahani, Soheila. 2008. “Body As a Means of Non-Verbal Communication in Iran.” International Journal of Modern Anthropology 1, no. 1: 65–81.

Unit 9: Writing and Signing

Hyland, Sabine. 2017. “Writing with Twisted Cords: The Inscriptive Capacity of Andean Khipus.” Current Anthropology 58, no. 3 (June): 412–19.

Unit 10: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse Analysis

Tolmach Lakoff, Robin. 2012. “The Triangle of Linguistic Structure.” In A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings, edited by Leila Monaghan, Jane Goodman, and Jennifer Meta Robinson, 2nd ed., 135–40. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 
Basso, Keith. 2012. “ ‘To Give Up on Words’: Silence in Western Apache Culture.” In A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings, edited by Leila Monaghan, Jane Goodman, and Jennifer Meta Robinson, 2nd ed., 73–83. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.