Bambi B Schieffelin
Biographic Data
| ID | 113163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bambi B Schieffelin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bambi B |
| FAMILY NAME | Schieffelin |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIEFFELIN B B |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Topic as a Discourse Notion: A Study of Topic in the Conversations of Children and Adults( )
Topic has been described as a discourse notion (see, for example, Chafe 1972 ; Li and Thompson, this volume). However, there has been no systematic study in linguistics of the way in which topics are initiated, sustained, and/or dropped in naturally-occurring discourse. This paper addresses itself to this concern. It draws from notions developed by sociologists engaged in conversational analysis and integrates them with our own observations of th…
The Paradoxes of Routes/Roots
The “real” Haitian creole: Metalinguistics and orthographic choice
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Language Socialization: An Historical Overview
Language Socialization: An Historical Overview
Foregrounding Referents: A Reconsideration of Left Dislocation in Discourse
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1976), pp. 240-257
Christianizing Language and the Dis-placement of Culture in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea
Highlighting the language ideologies and speech practices critical to missionization, this paper examines the introduction of evangelical Christianity in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, and its uptake in local communities. It analyzes the mission's linguistic and cultural ideologies-valorization of the vernacular language, rejection of cultural practices-and the consequences of these opposing valences. It details Bosavi pastors' mediation and transmiss…
Evangelical Conversion and the Transformation of the Self in Amazonia and Melanesia: Christianity and the Revival of Anthropological Comparison
The last several decades have seen both a renewed anthropological interest in the possibility of cross-cultural comparison and the rapid rise of the anthropology of Christianity. These two trends should be mutually supportive. One of the promises of the anthropology of Christianity from the outset has been that it will allow people to compare how processes of Christianization have unfolded in different parts of the world and to consider how the r…
Translation
Sprachsozialisation
The Handbook of Language Socialization
Handbook of Language Socialization
Talking Text and Talking Back: “My BFF Jill” from Boob Tube to YouTube
Exploring the close relationship between poetic language and metalanguage, this article analyzes both a series of 2007-8 U.S. TV ads that humorously deploy the language of text messaging, and the subsequent debates about the linguistic status of texting that they occasioned. We explore the ambivalence of commercials that at once resonate with fears of messaging slang as a verbal contagion and luxuriate in the playful inversion of standard languag…
Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Aparecida Vilaca & Robin M. Wright (eds.). 2009. Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. 252 pp. As evidenced by
Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be+like in Instant Messaging
Speaking Only Your Own Mind: Reflections on Talk, Gossip and Intentionality in Bosavi (PNG)
This article explores the relationship between language, thought, and cultural context by examining the concept of "talk" among the Bosavi people of Papua New Guinea. Schieffelin argues against the Western assumption that speaking one's mind is a universal value. In Bosavi culture, talk is not primarily about expressing individual opinions or intentions, but rather about maintaining social harmony and navigating complex relationships. Gossip, a p…
Langue et lieu dans l'univers de l'enfance1
Les voix de l'enfance, rappelées par les auteurs en exil ou de la diaspora, témoignent des liens forts et permanents qui unissent la langue, le lieu, les souvenirs et l'identité. La recherche en socialisation langagière nous offre une perspective complémentaire pour comprendre comment les enfants sont socialisés et intégrés dans des univers sociaux existants et comment ils en construisent de nouveaux à leur image. Des données ethnographiques et s…
Marking Time: The Dichotomizing Discourse of Multiple Temporalities
Among the first linguistic innovations during early colonization/missionization in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, was the introduction of vocabularies and discourses of marking and keeping various types of Europeanbased time. The introduction of Europeanstyle institutionally organized activities in which participation was regimented and monitoredfor example, paid and unpaid labor schemes, schools, and churchesin the early 1970s gave rise to new ways o…
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
Language ideologies: Practice and Theory
The essays in this new volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of societies around the world. Beginning with an introductory survey of language ideology as a field of inquiry, the volume is organized in three parts. Part I, "Scope and Force of Dominant Conceptions of Language," focuses on the propensity of cultural models of language developed in one social domain to affect linguistic and social behavior across doma…
Creating evidence: Making sense of written words in Bosavi
Since their earliest contact with Europeans, the Kaluli people who live at the foothills of Mt. Bosavi in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea have viewed books as powerful and authoritative sources of information that white people use to shape and control the behavior of others. In a narrative told to Steve Feld and myself in 1990 about government contact in the early 1950s, an educated Kaluli man told us about his father who had …
Creating evidence: Making sense of written words in Bosavi
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Language Ideology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children. Marjorie Harness Goodwin
The "real" Haitian Creole: Ideology, Metalinguistics, and Orthographic Choice
This article analyzes competing representations of kreyòl and the symbolic importance of decisions taken in standardizing a kreyòl orthography. Kreyòl, which educated Haitians claim to share with the masses, is an enduring symbol of Haitian identity, yet the image of this language is deeply contested in several arenas. Linking language ideology, in particular metalinguistic terms that refer to varieties of spoken kreyòl, to orthographic choice, w…
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
Language Socialization
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The give and take of everyday life: Language socialization of Kaluli children
Language has a heart
The "real" Haitian Creole: Ideology, Metalinguistics, and Orthographic Choice
This article analyzes competing representations of kreyòl and the symbolic importance of decisions taken in standardizing a kreyòl orthography. Kreyòl, which educated Haitians claim to share with the masses, is an enduring symbol of Haitian identity, yet the image of this language is deeply contested in several arenas. Linking language ideology, in particular metalinguistic terms that refer to varieties of spoken kreyòl, to orthographic choice, w…
Language socialization across cultures
A new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture.
Talking Text and Talking Back: “My BFF Jill” from Boob Tube to YouTube
Exploring the close relationship between poetic language and metalanguage, this article analyzes both a series of 2007-8 U.S. TV ads that humorously deploy the language of text messaging, and the subsequent debates about the linguistic status of texting that they occasioned. We explore the ambivalence of commercials that at once resonate with fears of messaging slang as a verbal contagion and luxuriate in the playful inversion of standard languag…
Marking Time: The Dichotomizing Discourse of Multiple Temporalities
Among the first linguistic innovations during early colonization/missionization in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, was the introduction of vocabularies and discourses of marking and keeping various types of Europeanbased time. The introduction of Europeanstyle institutionally organized activities in which participation was regimented and monitoredfor example, paid and unpaid labor schemes, schools, and churchesin the early 1970s gave rise to new ways o…
Speaking Only Your Own Mind: Reflections on Talk, Gossip and Intentionality in Bosavi (PNG)
This article explores the relationship between language, thought, and cultural context by examining the concept of "talk" among the Bosavi people of Papua New Guinea. Schieffelin argues against the Western assumption that speaking one's mind is a universal value. In Bosavi culture, talk is not primarily about expressing individual opinions or intentions, but rather about maintaining social harmony and navigating complex relationships. Gossip, a p…
Evangelical Conversion and the Transformation of the Self in Amazonia and Melanesia: Christianity and the Revival of Anthropological Comparison
The last several decades have seen both a renewed anthropological interest in the possibility of cross-cultural comparison and the rapid rise of the anthropology of Christianity. These two trends should be mutually supportive. One of the promises of the anthropology of Christianity from the outset has been that it will allow people to compare how processes of Christianization have unfolded in different parts of the world and to consider how the r…
Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be+like in Instant Messaging
Christianizing Language and the Dis-placement of Culture in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea
Highlighting the language ideologies and speech practices critical to missionization, this paper examines the introduction of evangelical Christianity in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, and its uptake in local communities. It analyzes the mission's linguistic and cultural ideologies-valorization of the vernacular language, rejection of cultural practices-and the consequences of these opposing valences. It details Bosavi pastors' mediation and transmiss…
Langue et lieu dans l'univers de l'enfance1
Les voix de l'enfance, rappelées par les auteurs en exil ou de la diaspora, témoignent des liens forts et permanents qui unissent la langue, le lieu, les souvenirs et l'identité. La recherche en socialisation langagière nous offre une perspective complémentaire pour comprendre comment les enfants sont socialisés et intégrés dans des univers sociaux existants et comment ils en construisent de nouveaux à leur image. Des données ethnographiques et s…
A sociolinguistic analysis of a relationship∗
(1981). A sociolinguistic analysis of a relationship. Discourse Processes: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 189-196
Linguistics: Children of the Salt River: First and Second Language Acquisition among Pima Children . Mary R. Miller
A sociolinguistic analysis of a relationship∗
(1981). A sociolinguistic analysis of a relationship. Discourse Processes: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 189-196
Developmental Pragmatics
Language socialization across cultures
A new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture.
Language Socialization
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Language has a heart
The give and take of everyday life: Language socialization of Kaluli children
Postcards from the Edge
Society For Linguistic Anthropology
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Disentangling: Conflict Discourse in Pacific Societies . Karen ANN Watson‐Gegeo and GEOFFREY M. WHITE
Language Ideology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children. Marjorie Harness Goodwin
The "real" Haitian Creole: Ideology, Metalinguistics, and Orthographic Choice
This article analyzes competing representations of kreyòl and the symbolic importance of decisions taken in standardizing a kreyòl orthography. Kreyòl, which educated Haitians claim to share with the masses, is an enduring symbol of Haitian identity, yet the image of this language is deeply contested in several arenas. Linking language ideology, in particular metalinguistic terms that refer to varieties of spoken kreyòl, to orthographic choice, w…
Creating evidence: Making sense of written words in Bosavi
Preview this article: Creating evidence, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.5.2.08sch-1.gif
Creating evidence: Making sense of written words in Bosavi
Since their earliest contact with Europeans, the Kaluli people who live at the foothills of Mt. Bosavi in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea have viewed books as powerful and authoritative sources of information that white people use to shape and control the behavior of others. In a narrative told to Steve Feld and myself in 1990 about government contact in the early 1950s, an educated Kaluli man told us about his father who had …
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
Language ideologies: Practice and Theory
The essays in this new volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of societies around the world. Beginning with an introductory survey of language ideology as a field of inquiry, the volume is organized in three parts. Part I, "Scope and Force of Dominant Conceptions of Language," focuses on the propensity of cultural models of language developed in one social domain to affect linguistic and social behavior across doma…
Marking Time: The Dichotomizing Discourse of Multiple Temporalities
Among the first linguistic innovations during early colonization/missionization in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, was the introduction of vocabularies and discourses of marking and keeping various types of Europeanbased time. The introduction of Europeanstyle institutionally organized activities in which participation was regimented and monitoredfor example, paid and unpaid labor schemes, schools, and churchesin the early 1970s gave rise to new ways o…
Langue et lieu dans l'univers de l'enfance1
Les voix de l'enfance, rappelées par les auteurs en exil ou de la diaspora, témoignent des liens forts et permanents qui unissent la langue, le lieu, les souvenirs et l'identité. La recherche en socialisation langagière nous offre une perspective complémentaire pour comprendre comment les enfants sont socialisés et intégrés dans des univers sociaux existants et comment ils en construisent de nouveaux à leur image. Des données ethnographiques et s…
Speaking Only Your Own Mind: Reflections on Talk, Gossip and Intentionality in Bosavi (PNG)
This article explores the relationship between language, thought, and cultural context by examining the concept of "talk" among the Bosavi people of Papua New Guinea. Schieffelin argues against the Western assumption that speaking one's mind is a universal value. In Bosavi culture, talk is not primarily about expressing individual opinions or intentions, but rather about maintaining social harmony and navigating complex relationships. Gossip, a p…
Talking Text and Talking Back: “My BFF Jill” from Boob Tube to YouTube
Exploring the close relationship between poetic language and metalanguage, this article analyzes both a series of 2007-8 U.S. TV ads that humorously deploy the language of text messaging, and the subsequent debates about the linguistic status of texting that they occasioned. We explore the ambivalence of commercials that at once resonate with fears of messaging slang as a verbal contagion and luxuriate in the playful inversion of standard languag…
Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Aparecida Vilaca & Robin M. Wright (eds.). 2009. Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. 252 pp. As evidenced by
Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be+like in Instant Messaging
Translation
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