36.2056, Books: Language and Body in Place and Space: Kataoka (2025)

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Subject: 36.2056, Books: Language and Body in Place and Space: Kataoka (2025)

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Date: 03-Jul-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [Lucy.Trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Language and Body in Place and Space: Kataoka (2025)


Title: Language and Body in Place and Space
Subtitle: Discourse of Japanese Rock Climbing
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/language-and-body-in-place-and-space-9781350319516/

Author(s): Kuniyoshi Kataoka

Hardback 9781350319479
Price: £95.00
Paperback 9781350319516
Price: £28.99

Abstract:

Drawing on the author's experience as a sociolinguist and a mountain
climber, this open access book shows how the expertise and
affect-laden experience of Japanese rock climbers can be illuminated
through linguistic methods and theories. Through a detailed
investigation of multimodal interaction among climbers, the book
explores a number of significant sociolinguistic and linguistic
anthropological themes, including spatial frames of reference,
intersubjectivity, chronotopic configurations, and poetic formations
of talk. In doing so, it presents climbing as a condensed locus of
human interactions in which the integrated analysis of semiotic
processes brings to light a new set of relationships between humans
and their surroundings.
Grounded in an extended and focused participation in rock climbing
activities and interviews with other climbers, Kuniyoshi Kataoka
examines the assemblage of semiotic resources including the language,
the body, and the space mediated by their climbing equipment and the
surrounding environment. The result is a showcase of interdisciplinary
multimodal approaches to climbing discourse analysis in and around the
gravity-sensitive zone, ranging from expert climbers' instruction to
novices, gossip and narratives on near-death experiences, to a
multi-participant discussion of a critical accident. As well as
demonstrating how language reflects extraordinary experiences on the
vertical plane, the findings also offer a chance to learn more about
climbing, which is attracting a growing number of participants and
competitors worldwide.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was
funded by Aichi University, Japan.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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