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<div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">I’ve just learned from Wiley Blackwell that to celebrate the Reixach Prize awarded to Ignasi Clemente by the Catalan Sociolinguistics Association and the Institute for Catalan
Studies for his recent book - news that I circulated earlier - the press is giving a discount of </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">20% off </span><a href="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118909712.html" class="" style="font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hardback
copies</a><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">purchased from </span><a href="http://www.wiley.com/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" class="" style="font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">www.wiley.com</a><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">
until 31 December 2017. </span></div>
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Information about the book is here:</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 18px;" class="">Clemente, Ignasi (2015). Uncertain Futures: Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer Treatment. Oxford & New York: Wiley Blackwell.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Palatino;" class="">In</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Palatino;" class=""> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Palatino;" class="">Uncertain
Futures</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Palatino;" class="">, Clemente draws on a multi-layered ethnographic approach to portray the
cancer trajectories of seventeen children as pivotal social and medical moments in their lives unfold, including the events leading to diagnosis, treatment, remission, relapse, or death. In his research, conducted at a hospital in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain),
Clemente shows that “not talking” is a culturally sanctioned alternative to speaking and that the regulation of communication creates obstacles to children’s participation in treatment conversations. Clemente illustrates how such regulation is one way in which
parents, pediatricians, and children try to contain the multiple, pervasive, and ever-evolving uncertainties of having cancer. His book problematizes the moral imperative that requires children to speak —and to feel —in ways that are hopeful, optimistic, and
stoic, at the risk of social exclusion and abandonment.</span></span></div>
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</span></font><span class="" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Palatino;">From the preface by Jim Wilce, editor of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>“Clemente
tells us that his book is an ethnographic treatment of communication. Significantly, it is about ‘the communicative patterns of commission and omission of a community.’ And that is largely what marks Clemente’s book as a departure. As important as previous
studies of 'communicative omission' and silence have been in the ethnography of communication and conversation analysis,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Uncertain Futures</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>differs sharply
from its precedents, and in some ways goes far beyond them. Silences in the children’s cancer ward at 'Catalonia Hospital' are part of a dance—one that could be construed as deadly. We can also think of Clemente as the John Nash of linguistic anthropology.
Like Nash (made famous in the Hollywood film A Beautiful Mind), Clemente offers an important contribution to a kind of game theory as he describes the ‘cat</span><span class="" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Calibri;">‐</span><span class="" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Palatino;">and</span><span class="" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Calibri;">‐</span><span class="" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Palatino;">mouse
game’ between children who ask questions persistently, and adults who try to protect them from potentially distressing news.”</span></div>
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