The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making
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 semio…
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- ISBN: 978-1-80041-149-4
- EAN: 9781800411494
- Produktnummer: 37130890
- Verlag: Channel View Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
David Parkin is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK, where he was a Professor of social anthropology. His research focuses on the coordination of multimodal communication.
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