LINGANTH Digest - 19 Oct 2013 to 20 Oct 2013 (#2013-117)

Mon Oct 21 22:07:46 UTC 2013

Not exactly silence, but:

McDermott, R P. 1988. "Inarticulateness." In Linguistics in Context: Connecting Observation and Understanding. Deborah Tannen, ed. Pp. 37–68. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

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Erika Alpert
Doctoral Candidate, Linguistic Anthropology
University of Michigan
Email: ealpert at umich.edu

On 21 Oct 2013, at 00:00, LINGANTH automatic digest system <LISTSERV at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG> wrote:

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> Topics of the day:
> 
>  1. Silence
>  2. Silence and Free Speech (separate requests) (3)
>  3. LINGANTH Digest - 18 Oct 2013 to 19 Oct 2013 (#2013-116)
> 
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> Date:    Sun, 20 Oct 2013 10:28:17 +0200
> From:    Stef Slembrouck <Stef.Slembrouck at UGENT.BE>
> Subject: Re: Silence
> 
> There is also the volume: Silence. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. A. Jaworski, 1997 (Mouton, Studies in Anthropological Linguistics).
> Stef Slembrouck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group [mailto:LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org] On Behalf Of Peterson, Leighton C.
> Sent: zaterdag 19 oktober 2013 15:29
> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: [LINGANTH] Silence
> 
> I hate to state the obvious on the topic of silence, but the classic is, of course, Basso, Keith H. 1970. To give up on words:  Silence in the Western Apache culture. Southwestern Journal of Anthropolgy 26:213-230.  
> It also appears as a chapter in his book "Western Apache Language & Culture."
> 
> lcp
> 
> --
> Leighton C. Peterson, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Miami University
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:54:27 +0000
> From:    Oona Schmid <oschmid at AAANET.ORG>
> Subject: Re: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
> 
> I don't know if this will help :
> 
> Sheriff, Robin E., Exposing Silence as Cultural Censorship: A Brazilian Case, American Anthropologist, 102.1 (2000).
> 
> 
> Oona Schmid
> Director, Publishing
> American Anthropological Association
> SkypeID: oona.schmid
> Phone: 703-528-1902
> Email: oschmid at aaanet.org
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group on behalf of Woolard, Kathryn
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:29 AM
> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
> 
> I don't think anyone's mentioned the classic work:
> 
> Keith Basso, 1970  "To give up on words: Silence in Western Apache
> culture."
> 
> Anthologized more than once, I imagine, but I believe the original was in
> SW J. of Anthropology.
> 
> 
> 
> Kit W.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/19/13 2:12 AM, "Smith, Andrea L" <smithal at LAFAYETTE.EDU> wrote:
> 
>> There is a great edited volume on silence that your student might enjoy:
>> 
>> Perspectives on Silence, ed. by Deborah Tannen and Muriel Saville-Troike.
>> Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
>> 
>> Best, Andrea Smith
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Alejandro Paz" <alejandro.paz at UTORONTO.CA>
>> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 3:24:50 PM
>> Subject: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
>> 
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> 
>> I have two separate requests for references from a student and a
>> colleague, which you may perhaps be able to help me with.
>> 
>> First is work on silence. I know articles by Sue Gal and Norma
>> Mendoza-Denton, as well as Richard Bauman's book on the Quakers.
>> Anything you recommend apart from that?
>> 
>> The second is work on "free speech." Here, nothing came directly to mind
>> on that topic. Although related would be stuff on public oratory and
>> public spheres, especially in democratic polities, and then of course on
>> censorship (like Domenic Boyer's article). So any suggestions here on
>> "free speech" or on "censorship" appreciated.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Alejandro
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> Alejandro Paz
>> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
>> University of Toronto Scarborough
>> Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics
>> University of Toronto
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> --
>> Andrea Smith, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Anthropology and Sociology
>> Lafayette College
>> Easton, PA 18042
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:28:41 -0700
> From:    Katherine Martineau <kbmartineau at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: LINGANTH Digest - 18 Oct 2013 to 19 Oct 2013 (#2013-116)
> 
> Dear Alejandro,
> 
> I'm currently writing about the language ideologies of free speech among
> journalists in eastern India, but that work won't be out for a couple of
> years. Though not strictly in linguistic anthropology. I would highly
> suggest the following:
> 
> Schiller, N. (2013). Reckoning with press freedom: Community media,
> liberalism, and the processual state in Caracas, Venezuela. *American
> Ethnologist*, *40*(3), 540-554.
> 
> Coleman, G. (2012). *Coding freedom: the ethics and aesthetics of hacking*.
> Princeton University Press.
> -- plus her piece in Cultural Anthropology
> 
> Asad, T., Brown, W., Butler, J., & Mahmood, S. (2009). *Is critique
> secular?: blasphemy, injury, and free speech*. Townsend Center. (available
> for download at http://escholarship.org/uc/item/84q9c6ft)
> 
> Keane, W. (2009). Freedom and blasphemy: on Indonesian press bans and
> Danish cartoons. *Public culture*, *21*(1), 47-76.
> 
> On censorship, William Mazzarella's recent book and edited collection on
> censorship may be useful. You might also suggest Gayle Rubin's critique of
> the anti-pornography movement, citation below, and Anne Allison's *Permitted
> and Prohibited Desires*.
> 
> Rubin, G. 1993. “Misguided, Dangerous, and Wrong: An Analysis of
> Antipornography Politics.” In *Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures*, 18–40.
> For thinking about corollaries in the linguistic anthropology literature, I
> have found it useful to think less about "free speech" and more about the
> specific issues -- so about insult, property, state regimentations,
> dangerous words, etc. You are welcome to have your student or colleague
> contact me directly if they have a specific area of interest. I might have
> a better citation for them.
> 
> best wishes,
> 
> Katherine Martineau
> PhD Candidate
> University of Michigan
> kbmartin at umich.edu / kbmartineau at gmail.com
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:00 PM, LINGANTH automatic digest system <
> LISTSERV at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:
> 
>> There are 3 messages totaling 136 lines in this issue.
>> 
>> Topics of the day:
>> 
>>  1. Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
>>  2. Silence
>>  3. <No subject given>
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Date:    Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:29:19 +0000
>> From:    "Woolard, Kathryn" <kwoolard at UCSD.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
>> 
>> I don't think anyone's mentioned the classic work:
>> 
>> Keith Basso, 1970  "To give up on words: Silence in Western Apache
>> culture."
>> 
>> Anthologized more than once, I imagine, but I believe the original was in
>> SW J. of Anthropology.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Kit W.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/19/13 2:12 AM, "Smith, Andrea L" <smithal at LAFAYETTE.EDU> wrote:
>> 
>>> There is a great edited volume on silence that your student might enjoy:
>>> 
>>> Perspectives on Silence, ed. by Deborah Tannen and Muriel Saville-Troike.
>>> Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
>>> 
>>> Best, Andrea Smith
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Alejandro Paz" <alejandro.paz at UTORONTO.CA>
>>> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 3:24:50 PM
>>> Subject: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
>>> 
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>> 
>>> I have two separate requests for references from a student and a
>>> colleague, which you may perhaps be able to help me with.
>>> 
>>> First is work on silence. I know articles by Sue Gal and Norma
>>> Mendoza-Denton, as well as Richard Bauman's book on the Quakers.
>>> Anything you recommend apart from that?
>>> 
>>> The second is work on "free speech." Here, nothing came directly to mind
>>> on that topic. Although related would be stuff on public oratory and
>>> public spheres, especially in democratic polities, and then of course on
>>> censorship (like Domenic Boyer's article). So any suggestions here on
>>> "free speech" or on "censorship" appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> Alejandro
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>> Alejandro Paz
>>> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
>>> University of Toronto Scarborough
>>> Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics
>>> University of Toronto
>>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Andrea Smith, Ph.D.
>>> Associate Professor
>>> Department of Anthropology and Sociology
>>> Lafayette College
>>> Easton, PA 18042
>> 
>> ------------------------------
>> 
>> Date:    Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:28:56 -0400
>> From:    "Peterson, Leighton C." <lpeterson at MIAMIOH.EDU>
>> Subject: Silence
>> 
>> I hate to state the obvious on the topic of silence, but the classic is,
>> of course, Basso, Keith H. 1970. To give up on words:  Silence in the
>> Western Apache culture. Southwestern Journal of Anthropolgy 26:213-230.
>> It also appears as a chapter in his book "Western Apache Language &
>> Culture."
>> 
>> lcp
>> 
>> --
>> Leighton C. Peterson, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
>> Miami University
>> 
>> ------------------------------
>> 
>> Date:    Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:06:31 +0000
>> From:    "E. Summerson Carr" <esc at UCHICAGO.EDU>
>> Subject: <No subject given>
>> 
>> Alejandro,
>> 
>> On free speech, check out Elise Kramer's work.  Here is a nice preview of
>> it on the Wenner Gren blog:
>> http://blog.wennergren.org/2012/04/interview-with-elise-kramer-on-mutual-minorityhood/
>> .
>> 
>> I'm also including a link to a forthcoming paper I wrote with my student,
>> Yvonne Smith, focused on a highly stylized use of silence in an American
>> psychotherapy I've been studying for some time. (Tried to attach it earlier
>> to no avail). The paper, itself, is directed primarily to medical
>> anthropologists, but the brief lit review may nevertheless prove helpful.
>> In addition to citing the work of Basso, Gal, Bauman, and Tannen's edited
>> volume (which includes papers by Norma Mendoza-Denton and Sue Philips),
>> you'll find reference to Greg Matoesian's fantastic stuff on silence in
>> rape trials. Also note T.S. Harvey's book on silence in Mayan medical
>> encounters, which I discovered recently.
>> 
>> 
>> http://ssascholars.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/e-carr/files/practice_poetics_pre-copy_edit_cmp.pdf
>> 
>> The paper has yet to be copy-edited, so please forgive the rough edges.
>> It should be out in the March issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry.
>> 
>> All best,
>> 
>> Summerson
>> 
>> 
>> E. Summerson Carr
>> Associate Professor
>> SSA, University of Chicago
>> 773-834-5877
>> 
>> ------------------------------
>> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:31:08 -0600
> From:    David Boromisza-Habashi <dbh at COLORADO.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
> 
> Chapter 4 of my ethnographic study of the Hungarian hate speech debates looks at cultural discourses of free speech vs. hate speech:
> 
> http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05637-1.html
> 
> David
> 
> --
> David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
> 
> Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder
> 
> http://colorado.academia.edu/DavidBoromiszaHabashi
> ________________________________________
> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group [LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Paz [alejandro.paz at UTORONTO.CA]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:24 PM
> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I have two separate requests for references from a student and a
> colleague, which you may perhaps be able to help me with.
> 
> First is work on silence. I know articles by Sue Gal and Norma
> Mendoza-Denton, as well as Richard Bauman's book on the Quakers.
> Anything you recommend apart from that?
> 
> The second is work on "free speech." Here, nothing came directly to mind
> on that topic. Although related would be stuff on public oratory and
> public spheres, especially in democratic polities, and then of course on
> censorship (like Domenic Boyer's article). So any suggestions here on
> "free speech" or on "censorship" appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> Alejandro
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Alejandro Paz
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> University of Toronto Scarborough
> Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics
> University of Toronto
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:06:07 +0000
> From:    "Munoz, Kristine L" <kristine-fitch at UIOWA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
> 
> A more recent source on silence is 
> 
> Nakane, I. (2007). Silence in intercultural communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
> 
> Excellent review of literature on cultural meanings and patterns of silence, plus an empirical study.
> 
> 
> Kristine Muñoz
> Professor of Communication Studies
> Professor of Latin American Studies
> University of Iowa
> EEUU
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group [mailto:LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of David Boromisza-Habashi
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 12:31 PM
> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: [LINGANTH] Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
> 
> Chapter 4 of my ethnographic study of the Hungarian hate speech debates looks at cultural discourses of free speech vs. hate speech:
> 
> http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05637-1.html
> 
> David
> 
> --
> David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
> 
> Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder
> 
> http://colorado.academia.edu/DavidBoromiszaHabashi
> ________________________________________
> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group [LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Paz [alejandro.paz at UTORONTO.CA]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:24 PM
> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I have two separate requests for references from a student and a colleague, which you may perhaps be able to help me with.
> 
> First is work on silence. I know articles by Sue Gal and Norma Mendoza-Denton, as well as Richard Bauman's book on the Quakers.
> Anything you recommend apart from that?
> 
> The second is work on "free speech." Here, nothing came directly to mind on that topic. Although related would be stuff on public oratory and public spheres, especially in democratic polities, and then of course on censorship (like Domenic Boyer's article). So any suggestions here on "free speech" or on "censorship" appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> Alejandro
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Alejandro Paz
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> University of Toronto Scarborough
> Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics University of Toronto
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
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