The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making - Couverture souple

Parkin, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800411464 ISBN 13 : 9781800411463

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2021

Synopsis

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\x27s 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.<\/p>

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800411464
• ISBN 13: 9781800411463
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible