Languages and publics the making of authority - Gal, Susan 1949; Woolard, Kathryn Ann; American Anthropological Association. Meeting Washington, D.C.) 1993 (Manchester St. Jerome Publishing, 2001)
Constructing languages and publics: authority and representation / Susan Gal and Kathryn A. Woolard -- Family romance of colonial linguistics: gender and family in nineteenth-century representations of African languages / Judith T. Irvine -- Linguistic theories and national images in nineteenth-century Hungary / Susan Gal -- Representing Native American oral narrative: the textual practices of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft / Richard Bauman -- From the meaning of meaning to the empires of the mind: Ogden's orthological English / Michael Silverstein -- Mock Spanish: covert racisn and the (leaky) boundary between public and private spheres / Jane H. Hill -- State speeches for peripheral publics in Java / Joseph Errington -- Creating evidence: making sense of written words in Bosavi / Bambi B. Schieffelin -- Outlaw language: creating alternative public spheres in Basque free radio / Jacqueline Urla -- Circulating the people / Benjamin Lee.
Based on a special issue of the journal Pragmatics, v. 5, no. 2, 1995 and on papers presented at the 92nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, held in Washington, D.C. 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics -- Congresses; Anthropological linguistics; Anthropological linguistics -- Congresses; Authority; Authority -- Congresses