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Talking Violence : An Anthropological Interpretation of Conversation in the City

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0919666566
ISBN-13 9780919666566
Publisher Memorial University Press
Imprint ISER Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jan 1st, 1987
Print length 224 Pages
Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification: Sociolinguistics
Ksh 3,050.00
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In vibrant settings spanning bars, cars, courts, hospitals, and universities of St. John's, repeated dialogues on violence reveal how everyday speech shapes local identities. Language serves as a creative force that challenges uniform social narratives and empowers self-definition.

Talking Violence is a conversational journey around St. John's, reconstructing the repeated discussions about violence heard in bars, cars, courts-of-law, halfway houses, hospitals and the university. Rapport offers an interpretation of these conversations; arguing that language should not be viewed as an instrument of coercion directing its users to the reproduction of a monolithic social structure, but rather as a vehicle of creativeness allowing people to construct local identities for themselves and their own worlds of meaning.


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