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
Index
Notes bibliogr.
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