Language, culture, and communication : the meaning of messages /

Bonvillain, Nancy

Language, culture, and communication : the meaning of messages / Nancy Bonvillain - 5e éd. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2008 - 1 vol. (X-445 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm

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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

9780135135686 (alk. paper) 0135135680 (alk. paper)

Language and culture Communication Linguistics

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