The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making: 19 - Brossura

Parkin, David

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ISBN 10: 1800411464 ISBN 13: 9781800411463

Casa editrice: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2021

Riassunto

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. The volume makes the argument that language and other forms of communication involve semiotic transactions between interlocuters; that such communicative exchanges do more than convey information; and that they give identity to the recipients of such transactions who reciprocate by defining speakers. The density and situational totality of such semiotic exchange can moreover be regarded as a kind of materiality, both in terms of their impact on social interaction and in how interlocuters interact bodily as well as verbally among themselves.

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David Parkin is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK, where he was a Professor of social anthropology. His research focuses on the coordination of multimodal communication.

David Parkin is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK, where he was a Professor of Social Anthropology. His research focuses on the coordination of multimodal communication.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Multilingual Matters Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1800411464
• ISBN 13: 9781800411463
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 378
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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