themes

Literature, Writing & Anthropology: A Theme List from the Archive

Compiled by Shannon Dugan Iverson & Darren Byler

Over the years Cultural Anthropology has published a wide range of essays by linguistic and cultural anthropologists in the language ideology framework. This framework explores how social differences—divisions of gender, class, race, and other culturally significant distinctions—are produced, indexed, and rationalized through language. Ideology can be located in linguistic practice, in metalinguistic discourse, and in metapragmatics.