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

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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