Linguistique Et Ethnolinguistique


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Cet ouvrage est un recueil d'une quarantaine d'articles publies de 1961 a 2003 dans diverses revues, actes de colloques et ouvrages collectifs. Il permet de mieux apprecier la diversite et la coherence d'une reflexion poursuivie sur pres d'un demi-siecle et toujours fort active. Les premiers articles concernent les langues "Plateau" (Nigeria septentrional). Suivent des contributions sur le sango (langue vehiculaire de RCA) et sur la phonologie descriptive ou comparee de divers parlers, principalement oubanguiens et bantous (sara, ngbaka, monzombo, gbanziri, kirundi, ngando, mbati). Plusieurs concernent des problemes de description: definition des classes de mots/parties du discours et des unites a prendre en compte a differents niveaux descriptifs suivant une methode originale appelee systemique dynamique; ils relevent de la linguistique generale. Enfin, une bonne moitie des contributions illustre des problemes d'ethnolinguistique envisagee comme interaction reciproque entre la langue et le monde exterieur, propre a un groupe social: systemes de numeration, instruments de musiques, noms de plantes et taxinomie ethnique de celles-ci, litterature orale, lexique thematique, ideologies particulieres. En annexe, une bibliographie complete des travaux permet de resituer articles et ouvrages les uns par rapport aux autres.




Du terrain au cognitif


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Jacqueline M.C. Thomas, ethnolinguiste, fondateur du LACITO (Laboratoire de Langues et Civilisations a Tradition Orale), a inlassablement oeuvre pour faire reconnaitre la "non-separabilite" de la langue et de la societe qui la parle, l'interet de l'apport fourni aux etudes linguistiques par des enquetes poussees dans des domaines connexes et, partant, la necessite d'entreprendre des etudes pluri- ou interdisciplinaires. A travers des exemples recueillis dans des langues et societes du monde entier, les textes reunis dans ce livre d'hommage, non seulement temoignent des multiples facons d'aborder la complexite de la langue et du langage, mais aussi montrent comment, entre terrain et analyse, il est possible de briser l'isolement des disciplines (linguistique, ethnologie, musicologie, sciences de la vie et de la terre, medecine, etc.) afin d'interroger les langues, d'explorer les societes et leur culture. Les articles, a caractere dscriptif de synthese ou a portee theorique, sont regroupes autour de cinq grands axes (Linguistique generale, Linguistique descriptive et comparative, Ethnologie et linguistique, Ethnoscience(s), Litterature orale). Ces articles nous convient a une reflexion sur des themes aussi divers que les methodes et exigences des enquetes de terrain et des analyses des donnees, la nature du savoir, les fondements de la langue et du langage ou encore leur dimension historique, les capacites de l'etre humain a dire/organiser le monde qui l'entoure..., mais aussi la complexification des disciplines en champs polycompetents. Le cederom joint a l'ouvrage presente les possibilites offertes aux linguistes de terrain par les nouvelles technologies de l'information: enregistrements sonores, transcriptions, textes, documents photographiques, films... peuvent maintenant etre stockes, traites, diffuses, sur un support unique.




Approaches to Language and Culture


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This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.




La Linguistique


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Linguistique, ethnologie, ethnolinguistique


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Introduction par J.M.C. Thomas. Contributions de F. Alvarez-Pereyre, J. Molino, F. de Sivers, H. Walter, J. Fribourg, C.H. Pradelles de Latour Dejean, L. Tessonneau, H. Claudot, E. Bonvini, M. Davoust, S. Golopentia-Eretescu, E. Gomez-Imbert, T. Crump, M.M.J. Fernandez, G. Grandguillaume, F. Jouannet, S. Chaker & M. Gast et A. Bentolila & L. Gani. Conclusion par J. Molino.




The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore


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This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.





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Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East, A Bibliography, Volume 1 Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East 1965-1987


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During the last two decades, the number of anthropologists conducting research in the Middle East has increased considerably. Together they have produced an abundance of valuable studies, often based on prolonged periods of ethnographic fieldwork. This bibliography offers a comprehensive survey of their results published between 1965 and 1987. It refers to studies published in English, French and German. Geographically, the bibliography covers the area from Mauritania in the West to Afghanistan in the East, and from Turkey in the North to the Arab Peninsula and Northern Sudan in the South. The majority of studies inserted has been written by anthropologists. Besides, a considerable number of studies related to anthropology, but published by non-anthropologists, has been integrated as well. The majority of the monographs and volumes has been annotated.




Nurturing Language


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This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.