This review of research offers a synthesis and analysis of research studies that address
issues of language and literacy practices and learning in transnational contexts of migration …

Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of
Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the …

" A true benchmark. This work will set a new standard for the conceptualization--let alone the
study--of missionization and religious conversion, colonial language policy, and language …

How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro
Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human …

In Relationship Thinking, NJ Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction
and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings by focusing on human relationships …

This article defines the present moment in the anthropology of embodied human
communication as a moment of possible fusion between (a) the new conception of the living …

Although gossip is disapproved of across the world's societies, it is a prominent feature of
sociality, whose role in the construction of society and culture cannot be overestimated. In …

Im/politeness is often conceptualised as the hearer's evaluation of a speaker's behaviour in
discursive politeness research, representing the broader concern with the participant's …

Research on crossing and stylisation among young people in multi-ethnic urban areas of
Britain during the 1980s and 1990s pointed to the emergence of new ethnicities with social …

The most important concept introduced in this book is 'street capital'. Street capital is inspired
by Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist. Street capital is knowledge, skills and objects …