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Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson offers the first English translation of a little-known essay by influential French philosopher Henri Bergson on the classifications of politeness acts. The translation is followed by a series of essays from scholars who critically engage with and build on Bergson's ideas, and recontextualize politeness as a key dimension of human sociability.

How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human interaction is variable across cultures and contexts. Through careful analysis of data collected over three decades in US and Pacific societies, Duranti demonstrates that, in some communities, social actors avoid intentional discourse, focusing on the consequences of actions rather than on their alleged original goals. In other cases, he argues, people do speculate about their own intentions or guess the intentions of others, including in some societies where it was previously assumed they avoid doing so. To account for such variation, Duranti proposes an 'intentional continuum', a concept that draws from phenomenology and the detailed analysis of face-to-face interaction. A combination of new essays and classic re-evaluations, the book draws together findings from anthropology, linguistics and philosophy to offer a penetrating account of the role of intentions in defining human action

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Rethinking anti-intentionalism -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Reopening a dialogue that never took off -- 1.2 Self and other -- 1.3 Ethnopragmatics -- 1.4 Themes, issues, and intellectual connections -- 1.5 Title and expectations -- 2 Intentions in speaking and acting: the Standard Theory and its foes -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 The Standard Theory: Grice, Austin, and Searle -- 2.1.1 The speech act of promising -- 2.1.2 Searle's five types of speech acts and the notion of "direction of fit -- 2.1.3 Searle's model of intentionality -- 2.1.4 Searle's notions of Network and Background: capturing implicit cultural knowledge -- 2.2 The role of intention in defining "action -- 2.2.1 Unintended consequences and the practical engagement with the world -- 2.3 Michelle Rosaldo's critique of speech act theory -- 2.4 Brentano´s and Husserl's use of intentions -- 2.5 Criticism of Husserl's use of intentionality as the foundation of meaning-making -- 2.5.1 Husserl's "passive synthesis" and "streaming living present" in the unpublished manuscripts -- 2.6 A different theorist of speech as action: Ludwig Wittgenstein -- 2.7 The meaning of intention and intending -- 2.7.1 Translating intention: an exercise in Samoan ethnopragmatics -- 2.8 Not giving up on intentions -- 2.9 Alternative "western" ways -- 3 The avoidance of intentional discourse: a Samoan case study -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Avoidance of making explicit intentions and motivations -- 3.1.1 The 1978-1979 project: Samoan language acquisition and socialization -- 3.1.2 The Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition: neo-Vygotskian perspectives -- 3.2 A brief introduction to the Samoan fono as a speech event and a social drama -- 3.3 Unintended consequences: Loa's case, April 7, 1979.

Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, The Handbook of Language Socialization is a unique reference work for an emerging and fast-moving field. Spans the fields of anthropology, education, applied linguistics, and human development Includes the latest developments in second and heritage language socialization, and literary and media socialization Discusses socialization across the entire life span and across institutional settings, including families, schools, work places, and churches Explores data from a multitude of cultures from around the world.

A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture. Provides a definitive overview of the field of linguistic anthropology, comprised of original contributions by leading scholars in the fieldSummarizes past and contemporary research across the field and is intended to spur students and scholars to pursue new paths in the coming decadesIncludes a comprehensive bibliography of over 2000 entrie

A World of Others' Words: Cross‐Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality. Richard Bauman. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. 184 pp.