The life of voices : bodies, subjects and dialogue / B. Hannah Rockwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rockwell, B. Hannah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin's philosophy of dialogue with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's views of the relation between bodies and speech expression to develop a unique theory of communication and bodies. By introducing readers to actual human subjects speaking about how their identities have been shaped and transformed through time, the author explores how discourses reproduce ideology and so

Contents:

Living language

Dialogue, organic bodies and consciousness

Communicating bodies: worldliness, values, ideology and dialogue

Bodies as memory sites

Organic bodies and symbolic lives

Speaking subjects as limbs of social bodies

Embodied feeling and collective values

Shared humanity and the power of dialogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-136-73934-3

0-203-81889-X

9780203818893

OCLC:

797919239