32.2741, Books: The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making: Parkin

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:03:25
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making: Parkin

 


Title: The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making 
Series Title: Encounters  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800411463 


Author: David Parkin

Hardback: ISBN:  9781800411470 Pages: 400 Price: U.S. $ 149.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781800411470 Pages: 400 Price: U.K. £ 134.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781800411463 Pages: 400 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781800411463 Pages: 400 Price: U.K. £ 34.95


Abstract:

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social
anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East
Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the
anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s
thinking. The volume makes the argument that language and other forms of
communication involve semiotic transactions between interlocuters; that such
communicative exchanges do more than convey information; and that they give
identity to the recipients of such transactions who reciprocate by defining
speakers. The density and situational totality of such semiotic exchange can
moreover be regarded as a kind of materiality, both in terms of their impact
on social interaction and in how interlocuters interact bodily as well as
verbally among themselves.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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