Asif Agha

Research interests:

• Linguistic and cultural anthropology
• Sociolinguistics: semiotics; rhetoric; language and social relations; metaphor and tropes; registers of language; speech style; language and ideology.
• Mass media and the public sphere. Advertising and public relations. Presidential campaigns.
• Language structure and function: grammatical and indexical categories in language; language typology and universal grammar; discourse analysis; meaning and reference; language and cognition; speech as action; deference systems; evidential categories; modality and deixis; animal communication
• Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics.