Table of contents
1. Introduction1
2. Theory Groups in Science4
3. 1950s Studies of Lexicons and Psychiatry18
4. Sociologies of Language47
5. Language Contact and Early Sociolinguistics57
6. The Ethnography of Speaking94
7. Related Perspectives145
8. Ethnoscience182
9. 1980s University of California Ethnolinguistics210
10. Midwestern Semiotics and Georgetown Pragmatics235
11. The Turn Away from Language in Contemporary American Anthropology240
12. Conclusions247
An Appendix on Methods259
Bibliography267
Index328
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