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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 51–61

Anthropological linguistics

Article outline
  • 1.Preliminaries
  • 2.Early history
  • 3.Early types of research
  • 4.Continuity
  • 5.The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
  • 6.Ethnographic semantics
  • 7.The ethnography of communication
  • 8.Sociolinguistics
  • 9.Recent research and current directions
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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