The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from...
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Author: David Parkin
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The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making by Parkin, David

The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

$179.13

The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

$179.13
Author: David Parkin
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: David Parkin
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: 08/18/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9781800411463

About the Author
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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