Ruth Finnegan (UK Open University)

Where is Language?

An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

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?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9781472590930
• ISBN-10: 1472590937
• Artikelnr.: 42766519

Autorenporträt

Ruth Finnegan is Emeritus Professor at the Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface1. Where is the Art of Language? 2. Playing with the Heroes of Human
History3. 'Artisting the Self': The Craft of Personal Story4. Forget the
Words...: It's Performance!5. Reclothing the 'Oral'6. Song: What Comes
First: Words, Music or Performance?7. Competence and Performance: Was
Chomsky Right After All? 8. Poem and Story: The Arts of Dreaming and Waking
to Sweet Words9. Where is Literature?Further readingBibliographyIndex