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Practices of truth : an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts / Baudouin Dupret.
Van Pelt Library BJ1428.A73 D87 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dupret, Baudouin.
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 214.
- Pragmatics & beyond
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truthfulness and falsehood--Arab countries.
- Truthfulness and falsehood.
- Truthfulness and falsehood--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Ethnology--Arab countries.
- Ethnology.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 173 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Contents:
- Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb
- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level
- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters
- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their "self-presentation"
- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror
- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital
- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-169) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027256171
- 9027256179
- 9789027284655
- 9027284652
- OCLC:
- 745980443
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