Social anthropology and language; [electronic resource] / edited by Edwin Ardener.. — London, New York, : Tavistock Publications, [1971]. — cii, 318 p. : illus. 22 cm. - A.S.A. monographs, 10.
"Distributed in the USA by Barnes & Noble." "Derives mainly from papers presented at a conference on linguistics and social anthropology sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth and held 9-12 April 1969 at the University of Sussex."
Includes bibliographies.
pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. : Introductory essay: social anthropology and language / : Social anthropology, language, and sociolinguistics: : Early British anthropologists and language / : Malinowski, Firth, and the 'context of situation' / : Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking / : Customs and cases of verbal behaviour / : Multilingualism and social categories: : A note on multilingualism / : Some coastal pidgins of West Africa / : Some observations on language variety and plurilingualism / : Prosodic and paralinguistic correlates of social categories / : Social anthropology and language models: : Social anthropology and the historicity of historical linguistics / : The quartered shield: outline of a semantic taxonomy / : Some ideas of Saussure applied to Buryat magical drawings / Edwin Ardener -- Hilary Henson -- R.H. Robins -- Dell Hymes -- J.B. Pride -- W.H. Whiteley -- Elizabeth Tonkin -- N. Denison -- D. Crystal -- Edwin Ardener -- G.B. Milner -- Caroline Humphrey.