Important Assigned Books (Fall 2023)

The following books (listed in the order they are assigned in the course) are important texts in the course; they are all available as ebooks or pdfs via ereserve; some are also available as print books in the library:

  • Ahearn, Laura . Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Malden, MA:Wiley Blackwell, 2017 (2nd edition). eBook (Make sure it's the right edition!!)
  • Alim, H. S., A. Reyes & P. Kroskrity (eds.) 2020. Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. New York: Oxford University Press. ebook
  • Alim et al. Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race. New York, 2016.
  • Austin, J.L. 1962 [1955]. How to do things with words, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. ebook
  • Bakhtin, Mikhail. "Discourse in the Novel," The Dialogic Imagination : four essays; edited by Michael Holquist ; translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist Austin : University of Texas Press, c1981. ebook
  • Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Oxford University Press, 2008 [1903]. (ebook).
  • Duranti, Alessandro, Rachel George, Robin Conley Riner, eds., A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology)2023. ebook
  • Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth-century America (25th anniversary, new revised edition, new preface), Columbia University Press). 2022 (1997). ebook
  • Kondo, Dorinne. Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. ebook
  • Meek, Barbara. We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community. University of Arizona Press, 2011. ebook
  • Saussure, Ferdinand de Course in general linguistics, edited by Saussy and Meisel, Columbia U Press. (c1959). (ereserve, book reserve); NOTE: Do NOT use the Harris translation, 1986 or the Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye edition of Baskin, the pagination is different!
  • Wirtz, Kristina. Performing Afro-Cuba : image, voice, spectacle in the making of race and history. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014. ebook
  • Yaguello, Marina. Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998 (1981).