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Where is Language? - An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance (Hardcover)
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Where is Language? - An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance (Hardcover)
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Language is central to human experience and our understanding of
who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what
is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it
exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the
mind or in speech? For too long, ethnographic, aesthetic and
sociolinguistic studies of language have remained apart from
analyses emerging from traditions such as literature and
performance. Where is Language? argues for a more complex and
contextualized understanding of language across this range of
disciplines, engaging with key issues, including orality, literacy,
narrative, ideology, performance and the human communities in which
these take place. Eminent anthropologist Ruth Finnegan draws
together a lifetime of ethnographic case studies, reading and
personal commentary to explore the roles and nature of language in
cultures across the world, from West Africa to the South Pacific.
By combining research and reflections, Finnegan discusses the
multi-modality of language to provide an account not simply of
vocabulary and grammar, but one which questions the importance of
cultural settings and the essence of human communication itself.
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