A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics (Studies in Linguistic ...

illocutionary act, 184
image schemas, 107-109
imitation, 18-19,25-26
immigrant speech communities, and
borrowing, 134-135
Indo-European language family, 3
infix, 184
infixation, 82
infixes, 75
inflection, 184
inflectional morpheme, 74,184
ingegno, 159
innovations in language, 8 1-82
interchangeability, 43
interdental, 48
interdental sounds, 5 1
International Phonetic Alphabet (PA),
47-48
intonation, 63,66,184
irony, 111, 113, 184
Isaac, G., 30
isolating languages, 12,82,83,184
Italian
calques, 135
comparative analysis, 33
loanwords, 134-135
masculine and feminine plural forms,
77-78
productive concepts, 11 1
Ivanov, V.V., 38
J
Jakobson, Roman, 126
Japanese writing, 156
jargon, 129,184
Jespersen, Otto, 24-25
Johnson, Mark, 107,109
Jones, Robert, 152
Jones, Sir William, 2
Joos, Martin, 17
K
Kafka, Franz, 147
katakana, 156
INDEX 217
Kay, Paul, 14&146
kinship terms, 140-141
Gamer, Cheris, 131
Kramsch, C., 140
Kuhn, Thomas, 157
Kurgan, 35
L
La-La theory, 25
labiodental sounds, 5 1
Labov, William, 72,129
Laitman, J.T., 29-30
Lakoff, George, 107,109
Langacker, Ronald W., 78
language
agglutinating, 12
analytic, 12
change, 39-4 1
as classificatory devices, 137
common elements, 8-9
defining, difficulty of, 8-9
design features, typology of, 42-45
diachronic study, 4
dialectal variation, 16
and discourse, interaction with,
126-127
gender system, 77-78
gesture language, 1 18
and humanity, 8
innovations in, 8 1-82
isolating, 12
magical powers, belief in, 127-128
as mental code, 9
and reality. See reality, and language
registers, 16-17
scientific approach to. See linguistics
and signs, 8
vs. speech, 9
synchronic study, 4
synthetic, 12
universal language, 84
variation in, 16
Language Acquisition Device theory,
17-18,21