thank you!

[Ilana Gershon]

 Dear Colleagues,

Thank you so much for all your recommendations for readings on
sincerity and indexicality.  I am circulating the compiled list in
case people are curious.


Gratefully,

Ilana



Summerson Carr (her 2010 article on therapeutic language)



Nik Coupland (on sociolinguistics and authenticity)



Danziger, Eve  2011.  Once More with Feeling: A Forbidden Performance
of the Great Speech of the Mopan Maya. Anthropological Quarterly
84(1):121-40.



Jane Hill's Everyday Language of Racism (2008)



Jane Hill and Judith Irvine, eds., Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse



Keane, Webb
1997. From Fetishism to Sincerity: On Agency, the Speaking Subject,
and Their Historicity in the Context of Religious Conversion.
Comparative Studies in Society and History 39(4): 674-693.
2002. Sincerity, "modernity," and the Protestants. Cultural
Anthropology 17(1): 65-92.



Joel Robbins has some work on this as well: See "Ritual Communication and

Linguistic Ideology: A Reading and Partial Reformulation of Rappaport's

Theory of Ritual" in Current Anthropology. 2001. 42(5).



Robbins and Alan Rumsey co-edited a section of Anthropology Quarterly's

Spring 2008 issue, called 'The Anthropology of Other's Minds' that might be

helpful.





Robin Shoaps. "Pray Earnestly": The Textual Construction of Personal
Involvement in Pentecostal Prayer." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
12(1):34-71.



Benjamin Smith - "real selfhood" and therapeutic language (J. of
Linguistic Anthropology 2005).



Lionel Trilling on Sincerity and Authenticity is a classic citation.



James Wilce (his new material on authenticity in new age healing practices