37.877, Books: Poetics of Living: Kataoka, Takekuro, & Enomoto (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 25-Feb-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Poetics of Living: Kataoka, Takekuro, & Enomoto (eds.) (2026)


Title: Poetics of Living
Subtitle: Aspects of Multimodal and Multisensorial Semiosis
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/poetics-of-living-9781350441545/

Editor(s): Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Makiko Takekuro & Takeshi Enomoto

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350441545, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This book provides empirical and theoretical accounts of poetics from
a sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological perspective,
highlighting the poesis of everyday living.
The authors not only regard poetry as a literary genre or a form of
aesthetic performance, but also aim to clarify how everyday practices,
such as casual conversation, radio broadcasting, sightseeing tours,
classroom instruction, and reciprocal singing, are imbued with poetic
(inter)actions achieved through senses, bodies, materials, and the
environment. Such mediums are shown to be appropriated here and now in
accordance with the ongoing social actions gleaned from the
contributors' fields of research and expertise. Examples include
classroom instruction and local festivals in Japan, music contests in
China, rock climbing and public demonstrations in the USA, radio/TV
broadcasts in Hawai'i and the USA, and tourist guidance in New
Zealand, among others.
Building on major poetic theories in sociolinguistics, linguistic
anthropology, and pragmatics, such as ethnopoetics, ritual poetics,
and dialogic resonance, this book offers a showcase of highly
interdisciplinary, cutting-edge approaches to poetic analysis that
range from micro-interactional exchanges to macro-sociocultural issues
surrounding poetic 'texts'. With such a diversity of activity,
language, and approach, the authors cultivate novel ways in which
multiple senses and modalities contribute to various forms of poesis,
as well as to often-consequential social relations associated with the
practices. The findings present students and researchers of language
with an opportunity to re-evaluate the width and depth of poetic
practice, as well as clues to enhance analytic sophistication through
the multi/crossmodal engagement with dynamic poesis that seeps into
everyday life.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics




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