This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture and it outlines the broad
interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It
identifies current and future directions of research including language socialization
language reclamation speech styles and genres language ideology verbal taboo social
indexicality emotion time and many more. Furthermore it offers areal perspectives on the
study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa the Americas Australia and Oceania
Mainland Southeast Asia and Europe) and it lays the foundation for future developments within
the field. In this way the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and
linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.
