Culture and Language Use -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface to the series -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- Aisatsu -- 1. Introduction: The pragmatics and metapragmatics of routine formulae -- 2. The anatomy of aisatsu -- 2.1 Marking social relationships -- 2.2 Marking contextual boundaries -- 3. The social acquisition of aisatsu -- 3.1 Aisatsu in school contexts -- 3.2 Aisatsu in workplace contexts -- 4. The pragmatics of aisatsu within the metapragmatics of aisatsu -- 5. Exploring intercultural routine formulae -- References -- Anthropological linguistics -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Early history -- 3. Early types of research -- 4. Continuity -- 5. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- 6. Ethnographic semantics -- 7. The ethnography of communication -- 8. Sociolinguistics -- 9. Recent research and current directions -- References -- Franz Boas -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Biography -- 3. The Americanist tradition -- 4. Time perspective in aboriginal languages -- 5. The Handbook of American Indian Languages -- 6. Phonetics vs. phonemics -- 7. Assessment -- References -- Cognitive anthropology -- 1. Historical background -- 2. Reconstruing cognitive anthropology -- References -- Componential analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The structuralist tradition -- 3. Linguistic anthropology -- 4. Generative and typological studies -- 5. Natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) -- 6. Other trends and problems -- References -- Cultural scripts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic primes: The language of cultural scripts -- 3. High-level scripts: Examples and observations -- 4. Communicative style: Some further examples -- 5. Culture-specific concepts in cultural scripts -- 6. Rhetorical speech practices -- 7. Scripts for ways of thinking and feeling, and for beliefs -- 8. Scripts for social models.

9. Scripts for non-verbal communicative practices -- 10. The accessibility and practicality of cultural scripts -- 11. Closing note -- References -- Culture -- 1. Introduction: Culture as an interdisciplinary project -- 2. Defining and redefining culture: An overview -- 2.1. The historical transformation of the culture concept -- 2.2 What is not culture -- 2.3 What is culture -- 2.3.1 The whole is the sum of parts: The mentalist approach -- 2.3.2 A map of and for behavior: The behaviorist approach -- 2.3.3 The metaphor of culture as text: The semiotic approach -- 2.4 Culture is a verb -- 3. Culture as ideology: From a consensual to a differentiated view of culture -- 3.1 The construction of the cultural other -- 3.2 The politics of cultural difference in stratified multicultural societies -- 4. Doing cultural analysis: A critique of the method -- 4.1 The dominance of intensive fieldwork -- 4.2 The subjectivity of participant observation -- 4.3 Doing and writing ethnography as interpretation and invention -- 5. Culture as communication: The 'linguistic' turn -- 5.1. One language - one culture? -- 5.2 Language as a means to cultural resources -- 6. Cross-cultural and intercultural analysis in pragmatic research -- 6.1 Cross-cultural pragmatic research: The culture principle -- 6.2 Intercultural pragmatics: Towards a critical reading -- 7. Conclusion: The pragmatics of recovering culture -- References -- Elicitation -- References -- Ethnography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethnography by example -- 3. Ethnography by contrast -- 4. Discourse -- References -- Ethnography of speaking -- 1. Development and main characteristics -- 2. Areas of inquiry -- 3. Issues and debates -- References -- Fieldwork -- References -- Firthian linguistics -- References -- Folk pragmatics -- 1. Folk linguistics -- 2. Folk pragmatics -- 3. Directions for future research.

References -- Honorifics -- 1. Definitions -- 2. Dimensions of variation and comparison -- 2.1 Linguistic forms -- 2.2 Sources of honorific expressions -- 2.3 Honorification roles and participant roles -- 2.4 Deployment and ideology -- 3. Pragmatics and semantics -- 4. Trends in theory and research -- References -- Wilhelm von Humboldt -- 1. Life -- 2. Humboldt's philosophy of language -- 3. Language and thought -- 4. Language and world -- 5. Language and languages (superior and inferior ones) -- 6. Language, culture, and creativity -- 7. Language, dialogue, and pronouns -- 8. Humboldt and the Idéologues -- References -- Intercultural communication -- 1. Background: Language and culture -- 2. Intercultural communication: The emergence of a field of inquiry -- 3. The concept of culture -- 4. Loci of culture-in-communication -- 5. Methodological (sub)discourses of the field -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Interview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The construction of interviews and questionnaires -- 3. Research on interviewing -- 4. Pragmatic underpinnings of interviews -- 5. Interviewing and institutional authority -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski -- 1. Biographical sketch -- 2. The study of culture -- 3. Fieldwork -- 4. Theory of language -- 5. An appraisal -- References -- Phatic communion -- References -- Edward Sapir -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Biography -- 3. Sapir on language, culture and personality -- 3.1 Language -- 3.1.1 Americanist text tradition -- 3.1.2 Linguistic form -- 3.1.3 Form-feeling -- 3.1.4 Linguistic relativity -- 3.2 Culture and personality -- 4. Sapir's importance to pragmatics -- References -- Taxonomy -- References -- Benjamin Lee Whorf -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Whorf's life and work -- 3. Whorf's perspective on linguistics -- 4. The linguistic relativity principle -- 5. Whorf's influence -- References.

Index -- The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights.