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This course introduces students to major themes in linguistic anthropology, such as linguistic diversity, indexicality of language, language ideologies, language socialization, language(s) in late capitalism, and forms of communication in multilingual contexts. The selected themes are presented using data pertaining to various Central European phenomena: from socialization practices in Roma communities to forms of communication in multinational companies operating in the region. Poslední úprava: Sloboda Marián, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (01.02.2025)
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Reading during the semester & term paper (for details, see the Requirements section below). Poslední úprava: Sloboda Marián, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (01.02.2025)
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Basic readings in English and German* *Recommendations on literature in other languages are available from the lecturers.
(1) General introduction AHEARN, L. M. (2011). Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell. DURANTI, A. (1997). Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SALZMANN, Z., STANLAW, J., & ADACHI, N. (2015). Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. (6th edition.) Westview Press.
(2) General reference DURANTI, A., GEORGE, R., & CONLEY RINER, R. (Eds) (2023). A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons. STANLAW, J. (Ed.) (2020). The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons.
(3) Methodology BLOMMAERT, J. & DONG J. (2020). Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide. (2nd edition.) Multilingual Matters. COPLAND, F., CREESE, A., ROCK, F., & SHAW, S. J. (2015). Linguistic Ethnography: Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Data. SAGE.
(4) Thematic literature - language ideologies KROSKRITY, P. V. (2004). Language ideologies. In A. Duranti (Ed.), A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (pp. 498–517). Blackwell Publishing. IRVINE, J. T., & GAL, S. (2000). Language ideology and linguistic differentiation. In P. V. Kroskrity (Ed.), Regimes of Language: Ideologies, polities, and identities (pp. 35–84). School of American Research Press. GAL, S. (2002). A semiotics of the public/private distinction. Differences 13(1), 77–95. / GAL, S. (2005). Language ideologies compared: metaphors of public/private. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1), 23–37. NEKVAPIL, J. & SHERMAN, T. (2013). Language ideologies and linguistic practices: The case of multinational companies in Central Europe. In E. Barát, P. Studer & J. Nekvapil (Eds), Ideological Conceptualizations of Language: Discourses of Linguistic Diversity (pp. 85–117). Peter Lang Verlag. - scaling BLOMMAERT, J. (2007). Sociolinguistic scales. Intercultural Pragmatics 4(1), 1–19. CARR, E. S. & LEMPERT, M. (Eds) (2016). Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life. University of California Press. (Also available online at https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.15/) GRYGAR, J. (2006). Borders and borderlands in the process of Europeanization: the case of Teschen Silesia. In L. Jesień (Ed.), The Borders and Limits of European Integration (pp. 129–150). Wyższa Szkoła Europejska im. ks. Józefa Tischnera. - diversity VERTOVEC, S. (2007). Super-diversity and its implications. Ethnic and Racial Studies 30(6), 1024–1054. BLOMMAERT, J. & RAMPTON, B. (2011). Language and superdiversity. Diversities 13(2), 1–21. PAVLENKO, A. (2017). Superdiversity and why it isn't: Reflections on terminological innovation and academic branding. In S. Breidbach, L. Küster & B. Schmenk (Eds), Sloganizations in Language Education Discourse. Multilingual Matters. SLOBODA, M. (2016). Transition to super-diversity in the Czech Republic: its emergence and resistance. In M. Sloboda, P. Laihonen & A. Zabrodskaja (Eds), Sociolinguistic Transition in Former Eastern Bloc Countries: Two Decades after the Regime Change (pp. 141–183). Peter Lang Verlag. - multinational companies NEKVAPIL, J. (1997). Die kommunikative Überwindung der tschechisch-deutschen ethnischen Polarisation: Deutsche, deutsche Kollegen, Expatriates und andere soziale Kategorien im Automobilwerk Škoda. In S. Höhne & M. Nekula (eds), Sprache, Wirtschaft, Kultur: Deutsche und Tschechen in Interaktion (pp. 127–145). Iudicum. NEKVAPIL, J. & SHERMAN, T. (2018). Managing superdiversity in multinational companies. In A. Creese & A. Blackledge (Eds) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (pp. 329–344). Routledge. - commodification of language HELLER, M. (2010). The commodification of language. Annual Review of Anthropology 39, 101–114. - language socialization OCHS, E. & SCHIEFFELIN, B. B. (1984). Language acquisition and socialization: three developmental stories and their implications. In Schweder, R. A. & LeVine, R. A. (Eds), Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self, and Emotion (pp. 276–322). Cambridge University Press. RÉGER, Z. (1999). Teasing in the linguistic socialization of Gypsy children in Hungary. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 46(3-4), 289-315. / RÉGER, Z. & BERKY-GLEASON, J. (1991). Romāni child-directed speech and children's language among Gypsies in Hungary. Language in Society 20(4), 601–617. / RÉGER, Z. (1979). Bilingual Gypsy children in Hungary: Explorations in 'natural' second-language acquisition at an early age. International Journal of Sociology of Language 19, 59–82. / LANGMAN, J. (2003). Growing a bányavirág (rock crystal) on barren soil: Forming a Hungarian identity in eastern Slovakia through joint (inter)action. In Bayley, R. & Schecter, S. R. (Eds), Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies (pp. 182–199). Multilingual Matters. KUBANÍK, P., SADÍLKOVÁ, H. & ČERVENKA, J. (2013). The competence in and the intergenerational transmission of Romani in the Czech Republic. In B. Schrammel-Leber & B. Tiefenbacher (Eds), Romani V: Papers from the Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society (pp. 61–80). Grazer Linguistische Monographien. - slang DALZELL, T. (2014). Hip-hop slang. In J. Coleman (Ed.), Global English Slang: Methodologies and Perspectives (pp. 15–24). Routledge. KLIMEŠ, L. (1972). An attempt at a quantitative analysis of social dialects. Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics 4, 77–93. PÍRKOVÁ-JAKOBSON, S. (1957). Prague and the Purple Sage. Harvard Slavic Studies III (pp. 247–287). Mouton. - language and gender CONNELL, C. (2010). Doing, undoing, or redoing gender? Learning from the workplace experiences of transpeople. Gender & Society 24(1), 31–55. ÖZÖRENCIK, H. (2024). "A female name cannot be registered for a physical person of male sex, and vice versa": Language management and language ideologies in the self-help discourse of the transgender community in the Czech Republic (= Working Papers in Language Management, 10). online
Other recommended works ...classics SAPIR, E. (1929). The status of linguistics as a science. Language 5, 207–214. (Reprinted in D. G. Mandelbaum (Ed.) (1951), Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality (pp. 160–166). University of California Press.) HYMES, D. (ed.) (1964). Language in Culture and Society: A Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology. Harper & Row. HYMES, D. (1996 [1983]). Speech and language: On the origins and foundations of inequality among speakers. In D. Hymes, Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Toward and Understanding of Voice (pp. 25–62). Taylor & Francis. HYMES, D. (1989). Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach. University of Pennsylvania Press. SILVERSTEIN, M. (1979). Language structure and linguistic ideology. In P. Clyne, W. F. Hanks & C. L. Hofbauer (Eds), The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels. Chicago Linguistic Society. OCHS, E. & SCHIEFFELIN, B. S. (Eds) (1986). Language Socialization Across Cultures. Cambridge University Press. ...newer developments NAKASSIS, C. V. (2016). Linguistic anthropology in 2015: not the study of language. American Anthropologist 118(2), 330–345. SILVERSTEIN, M. (2023). Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language. Cambridge University Press. GOODWIN, C. (2018). Co-operative Action. Cambridge University Press. ENFIELD, N. J., & LEVINSON, S. C. (Eds) (2006). Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction. Berg. STEGER, M. B. (2017). Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. (4th edition.) Oxford University Press. WALLERSTEIN, I. (2004). World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Durham. COUPLAND, N. (Ed.) (2010). The Handbook of Language and Globalization. Willey-Blackwell.
...with focus on Central Europe RIGA, L. & KENNEDY, J. (2006). Mitteleuropa as Middle America? "The Inquiry" and the mapping of East Central Europe in 1919. Ab Imperio 4, 271–300. CARL, J. & STEVENSON, P. (Eds) (2009). Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe: The German Language in a Multilingual Space. Palgrave Macmillan. STEVENSON, P. & CARL, J. (2010). Language and Social Change in Central Europe: Discourses on Policy, Identity and the German Language. Edinburgh University Press. NEWERKLA, S. M. (2000). Language affinity in Central Europe – some thoughts onthe interrelations of German, Czech, Slovak and Magyar. Opera slavica = Slavistické rozhledy 10(4).
Journals (selection)
Poslední úprava: Sloboda Marián, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (13.02.2025)
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Questions based on the individual papers from the reading list that will be supplied at the beginning of the course. The formulation of one question per paper/week is expected. An essay on one of the topics (see below) according to student's choice (approx. 8-10 normalized pages in length). The deadline is two weeks before the day the student needs their grade. Poslední úprava: Sloboda Marián, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (01.02.2025)
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Poslední úprava: Sloboda Marián, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (07.02.2025)
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