Linguistic Anthropology

The course discusses and reflects on key approaches, concepts, research, and development of linguistic anthropology. It introduces bacis concepts of linguistics and linguistic anthropology (langue and parole, competence and performance, indexicality, multifunctionality, language ideologies and practices, the hypothesis of linguistic relativity). Furthermore, it elucidates the relations between linguistic anthropology and related disciplines (ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics), and acquaints students with the interrelationship between language and culture. Through the examples of domestic and foreign, classical and contemporary ethnographic research in the field of linguistic anthropology, the course discusses the following relations: languages and gender, language and kinship, language and landscape, language and social class, language and ethnicity, language and politics, language and digital sphere, language and artistic practices, language and multilingual communities. The course addresses also the research and methodological principles of linguistic anthropology (analysis of written texts and speech situations, discourse analysis, language-focused interviews).

1. Ahearn, Laura M., 2015, Living language: an introduction to linguistic anthropology. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell. https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/2670000000208866

2. Babič, Saša, 2011, ‘Lingvistična antropologija in etnolingvistika’. Studia mythologica Slavica 14: 169–180. https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/33308461

3. Duranti, Alessandro ur., 2003, Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader. Malden MA: Blackwell. COBISS.SI-ID – 512105344

4. Duranti, Alessandro, 1985, 'Sociocultural Dimensions of Discourse.' V: Handbook of Discourse Analysis 1. Teun van Dijk, ur. London: Academic Press, str. 193–230.

5. Fairclough, Norman, 2007, Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 1372813

6. Irvine, Judith, in Jane Hill, ur., 1993, Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 1465186

7. Petrović, Tanja, 2006, 'Med lokalnim in nacionalnim: Srbi v Beli krajini in njihova jezikovna identiteta.' Jezik in slovstvo 51 (3-4): 37–53. COBISS.SI-ID - 34218082

8. Petrović, Tanja, 2011, 'Jeziki in večjezičnost.' V: Medkulturni odnosi kot aktivno državljanstvo. Marina Lukšič – Hacin, Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Mitja Sardoč, ur. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, str. 49–57. https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/5400000000048033

9. Stanlaw, James, Nobuko Adachi in Zdeněk Salzmann, 2018, Language, culture, and society: an introduction to linguistic anthropology. New York, Abingdon: Routledge. COBISS.SI-ID - 13305884

10. Stanonik, Marija, 2017, Etnolingvistika po slovensko, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/5400000000048232

11. Woolard, Kathryn, 1998, 'Introduction: Language Ideology as a Field of Inquiry.' V: Language Ideologies, Practice and Theory. Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard, Paul V. Kroskrity, ur. New York – Oxford: Oxford University Press, str. 3–47. https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/1000000000363266