Language can be studied from several angles. The one that focuses on the relation between language, thought, and culture is known as anthropological linguistics

This is the first comprehensive textbook in anthropological linguistics to be published for very many years. It provides a remarkably complete and authoritative

Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural pra

The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct.