Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

The fourth edition of Living Language is fully updated with new perspectives on gender and language revitalization.Now in its Fourth Edition, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology continues to ground students in how language both shapes and is shaped by social contexts, cultural meanings, and power dynamics.Fully updated throughout, this fourth edition covers both theory and real-world interaction, frontloading with a robust conceptual framework and equipping readers to interpret the chapters that follow. New to this edition are discussions of AI in relation to literacy, updated coverage of transgender language research and pronouns, and a perspectival shift from language endangerment to language shift grounded in Native and Indigenous linguistic anthropologists’ perspectives.The text now explicitly addresses scale as a concept and highlights differences between Internet and cellular-based communication.This insightful and indispensable book offers: Sign language