29.4805, Books: The Ground from Which We Speak: Cummins

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Subject: The Ground from Which We Speak: Cummins

 


Title: The Ground from Which We Speak 
Subtitle: Joint Speech and the Collective Subject 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://cambridgescholars.com/the-ground-from-which-we-speak/ 


Author: Fred Cummins

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527516007 Pages: 229 Price: U.K. £ 61.99


Abstract:

Joint speech includes chanting, singing in unison, swearing public oaths,
hollering at political rallies, and the humble ritual of singing “Happy
Birthday”. It is found wherever people speak or sing the same words at the
same time. This familiar behavior is found in prayer and ritual, in protest,
on the football terraces, in classrooms, and in many other situations of note.
These occasions are considered highly significant to those who take part, and
yet joint speech has not been addressed from a scientific or linguistic
perspective until now. This book provides a broad framing of how we might
study joint speech. It explores topics in linguistics, movement science,
neuroscience, and beyond, but it does not assume the reader is at home in any
of these. Rather, joint speech is familiar to us all, and the discussion here
leads to a broader consideration of how we understand our collective nature.
The topic provides an opportunity to address the difficulties and
opportunities we encounter in considering collective subjects, collective
meaning-making, and collective identities. Joint speech thus opens the door to
a renewal of the human sciences in which we are not merely individuals, but
are grounded in collectives of many kinds.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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