Figures

1.1	Cartoon demonstrating how certain styles of speech can both reflect and shape social identities
1.2	Khim Prasad during the Pounded Rice Ritual, with the bride, Indrani Kumari, and the bridal attendant
1.3	Cartoon about the varying cultural meanings associated with language use
1.4	Jakobson’s model of the multifunctionality of language
1.5	Cartoon playing off the language ideology that considers French a romantic language
1.6	Semiosis as a relation between relations
3.1	The cultural concepts of hed and save in Gapun, Papua New Guinea
4.1	Relationship between language and thought according to the (mistaken) “strong” version of the Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis
4.2	Relationship among language, thought, and culture according to contemporary understandings of the Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis within linguistic anthropology
4.3	Another of the many representations in popular culture of the “Eskimo words for snow” myth
4.4	Set-up for experiment involving coordinate systems
5.1	De Saussure’s “linguistic community”
5.2	Santa Ana and Parodí’s model of nested speech-community configurations
5.3	Strong, multiplex, high-density network with individual “X” at center
5.4	Weak, uniplex, low-density network with individual “X” at center
6.1	Peter Auer’s continuum of codeswitching,language mixing, and fused lects
7.1	Nepali love letter (with all identifying features removed)
8.1	Spatial configuration at August 1990 Tij songfest in Junigau
9.1	Cartoon referring to author Deborah Tannen’s ability to understand gendered language
9.2	Cartoon showing how certain linguistic forms can index social identities
10.1	Political cartoon that appeared in the wake of the Ebonics controversy
11.1	Cartoon depicting normal and inevitable changes in a language over time
12.1	Doxa as that which is taken for granted and therefore outside the universe of discourse