Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of pictures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive anthropology -- 3 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive linguistics -- 4 Spatial orientation -- 5 Language and habitual thought -- 6 Onomastics -- 7 The ethnography of communication -- 8 The contribution of interactional sociolinguistics -- 9 Emotions and the sounds of silence in a cross-cultural perspective -- 10 Cultural conceptions of face -- 11 Conversation analysis -- 12 Non-verbal communication -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Kinship terminology in Tima (Schneider-Blum and Veit 2022) -- Appendix II: Colour chart as used in Tornay (1978) -- Appendix III: Politeness strategies (Brown and Levinson 1987) -- Appendix IV: Transcriptional symbols in conversation analysis -- References -- Subject index -- Language index