[Linganth] W-B discount on Clemente's prize-winning book

[Woolard, Kathryn]

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  20% off Hardback copies<http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118909712.html> purchased from www.wiley.com<http://www.wiley.com/>  until 31 December 2017.

 The discount code is ICL20.   Information about the book is here:


Clemente, Ignasi (2015). Uncertain Futures: Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer Treatment. Oxford & New York: Wiley Blackwell.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118909712.html

In Uncertain Futures, 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.

From the preface by Jim Wilce, editor of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series:  “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, Uncertain Futures 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‐and‐mouse game’ between children who ask questions persistently, and adults who try to protect them from potentially distressing news.”


Best to all,
Kit

Kathryn Woolard
Professor
Dept. of Anthropology, UCSD 0532
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0532

Tel. 858-534-4639
kwoolard at ucsd.edu<mailto:kwoolard at ucsd.edu>



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