The monologic imagination /
The pioneering work of Bakhtin has led scholars to see all discourse as ""dialogical."" Contributors to this volume argue that something is overlooked with this focus. Many speakers, especially in political and religious contexts, craft monologues-single-voiced statements to whic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in the anthropology of language.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Series; The Monologic Imagination; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Imagining the Monologic; 1. Cultural Replication: The Source of Monological and Dialogical Models of Culture; 2. Dialogic Prophecies and Monologic Vision; 3. Monologue and Dialogism in Highland New Guinea Verbal Art; Discussion: Is It Monologic? Is It Dialogic? What Difference Does It Make?; 4. "With Unity We Will Be Victorious!": A Monologic Poetics of Political "Conscientization" within the Cuban Revolution; 5. From Neighborhood Talk to Talking for the Neighborhood.
- 6. Monologue and Authority in Iran: Ethnic and Religious Heteroglossia in the Islamic RepublicDiscussion: Diving into the Gap: "Words," "Voices," and the Ethnographic Implications of Linguistic Disjuncture; 7. Acting with One Voice: Producing Unanimism in Algerian Reformist Theater; 8. Creedal Monologism and Theological Articulation in the Mennonite Central Committee; 9. The Public Metaculture of Islamic Preaching; Discussion: The Monologic Imagination of Social Groups; Conclusion: Religious and Political Terrain of the Monologic Imagination; Index