Language, culture, and communication the meaning of messages
Nancy Bonvillain
5th ed
Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Pearson Prentice Hall
c2008
x, 445 p. ill. 23 cm
the meaning of messages
Language and culture
Communication
Linguistics
P
35
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B6
2008
Bonvillain, Nancy
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- The form of the message -- Language and cultural meaning -- Contextual components: Outline of an ethnography of communication -- Communicative interactions -- Societal segmentation and linguistic variation: class and race -- Language and gender: English and English speakers -- Cross-cultural studies of language and gender -- Learning language -- The acquisition of communicative competence -- Multilingual nations -- Bilingual communities -- Language and institutional encounters