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      Language & Communicative Practices

      William F. Hanks

      This book focuses on major theories of language from several disciplines and aims to develop an approach to communicative practice that combines the formal properties of linguistic systems with the…

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      Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance, and Context

      William F. Hanks

      A collection of papers organized around three central themes in Hanks’s work: indexicality and referential practices; discourse genres and textuality; and the historical embeddedness of language. Together, they represent the…

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      Language And Communicative Practices

      William F Hanks

      Written in an informal style with engaging examples, this introduction to the study of language in context presents a provocative new approach to communicative practice. Emphasizing the dual status of

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      Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space Among the Maya

      William F. Hanks

      Referential Practice is an anthropological study of language use in a contemporary Maya community. It examines the routine conversational practices in which Maya speakers make reference to themselves and to…

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      Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross

      William F. Hanks

      Documents the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest: how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of the cross, how it was taken up by native writers to become…

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      Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross

      William F. Hanks

      Documents the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest - how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of the cross, how it was taken up by native writers to…

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      Translating Worlds - The Epistemological Space of Translation

      Carlo Severi,William F. Hanks

      Set against the backdrop of anthropology’s recent focus on various turns (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation…

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