Disorderly discourse : narrative, conflict, & inequality / edited by Charles L. Briggs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Briggs, Charles L., 1953- editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 7.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Conversation analysis.

Conflict management.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conflict plays a crucial role in social interactions, and representations of conflict are an important aspect of language. Stories and narratives involving everything from war to playground disputes generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict at all levels of social organization. Still, despite the vast amount of research on conflict and narrative in a number of disciplines, no one has yet examined how these play off of each other; in fact, most studies treat narrative merely as a source of information about conflict rather then as a part of conflict's process. The contributors to this collection argue that language consists of socially and politically situated practices that are differentially distributed on the basis of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and other categories. Each of them, writing from the perspective of their own disciplines, challenges previous assumptions about narrative and social conflict as they interpret a range of disputes that emerge in a variety of settings. Taken in total, these essays substantially further our theoretical and methodological understanding of narrative and conflict and how they intersect.

Contents:

The co-narration of order : aesthetics, iconicity, and experiencing conflict resolution / Donald Brenneis

The trickster's scattered self / Ellen Basso

Detective stories at dinnertime / Elinor Ochs, Ruth Smith, and Carolyn Taylor

Embarrassment as pride : narrative resourcefulness and strategies of normativity among Cretan animal-thieves / Michael Herzfeld

Ideological dissonance in the American legal system / William M. O'Barr and John M. Conley

Consensus and dissent in U.S. legal opinions / Elizabeth Mertz

We want to borrow your mouth : Tzotzil marital squabbles / John B. Haviland

Disorderly dialogues in ritual impositions of order : the role of metapragmatics in Warao dispute mediation / Charles L. Briggs.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772156-7

1-280-52728-5

9786610527281

1-4294-1540-1

OCLC:

567928160