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Title: Language Shock : Understanding The Culture Of Conversation by Michael H. Agar ISBN: 0-688-14949-9 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic Read!
Comment: I highly recommend this book to anybody with an interest in getting a rudimentary introduction to the ways in which language and culture intermesh. I read it as part of a class at the UMD, though I didn't take it with Agar, and it was one of my most favorite parts of the class. I think it deserves credit as a book that's enjoyable, not just educational. There's a very short list of the books I've read for classes that were hard to put down.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insight into other cultures
Comment: "Language Shock" helped me to understand my experience of living in a foreign land -- China, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Agar's inights drawn the fields of anthropology and linguistics gave me a way of processing the "rich points" of those cultures. Since first reading the book a few years ago I have studied linguistics in more depth, and I have to say that Agar's approach to langauge and culture is still one of the best I have encountered. I highly recommend it to anyone living in a foreign country, and anyone with an interest in language and culture.
Rating: 3
Summary: Worth reading but could be better
Comment: Mr. Agar has written about an important and fascinating topic. He provides several examples of miscommunciations, and he teaches us some jargon such as "rich points", "languaculture", and "frames" in his field of linguistic anthropology. The book is worth reading, however, it is twice too long. In trying to personalize this interesting topic, he gets too familiar and too wordy. I would like to read a followup with more examples of mismatched communication (1) within American English, (2) within other lanuguages (his are German and Spanish), as well as (3) between languages and cultures. I suggest adding examples of manners and etiquette in various countries and cultures.
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Title: The Social Art: Language and Its Uses by Ronald MacAulay, Ronald Macaulaly ISBN: 0195106571 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Language Myths by Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill ISBN: 0140260234 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Language, Culture, and Society: A Book of Readings by Ben G. Blount ISBN: 0881338508 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache by Keith H. Basso ISBN: 0826317243 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Portraits of 'the Whiteman' : Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache by Keith H. Basso ISBN: 0521295939 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 August, 1979 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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