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THE LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF NATIVE SOUTH AMERICA

OVERVIEW Formerly described as the area of "greatest ignorance concerning the native languages" (135, p. 163), and dubbed "the least known continent," South America has lately been humming and buzzing with linguistic anthr opolo gical research. The work has concentrated in three principal areas: discourse, language structure, and multilingualism, with such areas as language acquisi­ tion remaining underdeveloped. Much of the ferment among South Americanists has focused on the dis­ course-centered approach to culture (192, 194), an emerging synthesis of linguistic and social anthropology. Because of its central tenets-namely, (a) that culture is carried in and transmitted by actual instances of language use, and (b) that microethnographi c