Ritual And Language

Author : Dániel Z. Kádár
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108633017

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Ritual and Language by Dániel Z. Kádár Pdf

While ritual is often associated with phenomena such as ceremonies, cursing and etiquette, it actually encompasses something much more important: it includes all instances of communally oriented language use. As such, ritual manifests itself in many forms in our daily lives, such as politeness, swearing and humour, and in many different life situations, spanning trash talk in sports events, through market bargaining, to conventional social pleasantries. This pioneering book provides an introduction to ritual language use by providing a cutting-edge, language-anchored and replicable framework applicable for the study of ritual in different datatypes and languages. The framework is illustrated with a wealth of case studies drawn from Chinese and Anglophone rituals which demonstrate how to use it effectively. The book is essential reading for both academics and students, and is relevant to pragmatics, applied linguistics and other fields.

Author : Roger Grainger
Publisher : London : Darton, Longman & Todd
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000378016

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The Language of the Rite by Roger Grainger Pdf

Author : Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520324022

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Language, Charisma, and Creativity by Thomas J. Csordas Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Author : Michael L. Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Eugubine tables
ISBN : 9004177892

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Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy by Michael L. Weiss Pdf

Taking an approach that combines philological, linguistic, and ritual analysis, Michael Weiss sheds light on many obscure interpretive cruces and also constructs a coherent theory of the entire ritual performance described on Tables III and IV of the Tabulae Iguvinae.

Author : James J. Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521028000

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To Speak in Pairs by James J. Fox Pdf

This collection of essays represents an important advance in the study of oral literature in context.

Author : Gunter Senft,Ellen B Basso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181456

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Ritual Communication by Gunter Senft,Ellen B Basso Pdf

Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal ritual. Ritual communication extends beyond collective religious expression. It is an intrinsic part of everyday interactions, ceremonies, theatrical performances, shamanic chants, political demonstrations and rites of passage. Despite being largely formulaic and repetitive, ritual communication is a highly participative and self-oriented process. The ritual is shaped by time, space and the individual body as well as by language ideologies, local aesthetics, contexts of use, and relations among participants. Ritual Communication draws on a wide range of contemporary cultures - from Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific - to present a rich and diverse study for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology and sociolinguistics.

Author : Christopher Ball
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826358547

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Exchanging Words by Christopher Ball Pdf

Like human groups everywhere, Wauja people construct their identity in relation to others. This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors. Tracing Wauja interactions with others, Ball depicts expanding scales of social action from the village to the wider field of the park and finally abroad. Throughout, the author analyzes language use in ritual settings to show how Wauja people construct relationships with powerful spirit-monsters, ancestors, and ethnic trading partners. Ball’s use of ritual as an analytic category helps show how Wauja interactions with spirits and Indian neighbors, for example, are connected to interactions with the Brazilian government, international NGOs, and museums in projects of development. Showing ritual as a contributing factor to relationships of development and the politics of indigeneity, Exchanging Words asks how discourse, ritual, and exchange come together to mediate social relations close to home and on a global scale.

Author : Beryl Larry Bellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015010758129

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The Language of Secrecy by Beryl Larry Bellman Pdf

Author : Barry Stephenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199943593

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Ritual: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Stephenson Pdf

Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual tradition bound and conservative or innovative and transformational? Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very Short Introduction explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not. Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107007123

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The Aesthetics of Grammar by Jeffrey P. Williams Pdf

This book provides a detailed comparative overview of an array of elaborate grammatical resources used in Southeast Asian languages.

Author : Axel Michaels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190262631

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Homo Ritualis by Axel Michaels Pdf

'Homo Ritualis' describes and analyzes various forms of Hindu rituals and examines conceptual components such as framing, formality modality and theories of meaning. Presenting a Hindu theory of rituals, the book asks how indigenous terms and notions of ritual contribute to ritual theory.

Author : Rachel Corr
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816501113

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Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes by Rachel Corr Pdf

Not every world culture that has battled colonization has suffered or died. In the Ecuadorian Andean parish of Salasaca, the indigenous culture has stayed true to itself and its surroundings for centuries while adapting to each new situation. Today, indigenous Salascans continue to devote a large part of their lives to their distinctive practices—both community rituals and individual behaviors—while living side by side with white-mestizo culture. In this book Rachel Corr provides a knowledgeable account of the Salasacan religion and rituals and their respective histories. Based on eighteen years of fieldwork in Salasaca, as well as extensive research in Church archives—including never-before-published documents—Corr’s book illuminates how Salasacan culture adapted to Catholic traditions and recentered, reinterpreted, and even reshaped them to serve similarly motivated Salasacan practices, demonstrating the link between formal and folk Catholicism and pre-Columbian beliefs and practices. Corr also explores the intense connection between the local Salasacan rituals and the mountain landscapes around them, from peak to valley. Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes is, in its portrayal of Salasacan religious culture, both thorough and all-encompassing. Sections of the book cover everything from the performance of death rituals to stories about Amazonia as Salasacans interacted with outsiders—conquistadors and camera-toting tourists alike. Corr also investigates the role of shamanism in modern Salasacan culture, including shamanic powers and mountain spirits, and the use of reshaped, Andeanized Catholicism to sustain collective memory. Through its unique insider’s perspective of Salasacan spirituality, Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes is a valuable anthropological work that honestly represents this people’s great ability to adapt.

Author : Philippe Buc
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691144429

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The Dangers of Ritual by Philippe Buc Pdf

Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities, civic games, banquets, hunting, acts of submission or commendation, and more. ''Ritual?'' asks Philippe Buc. In The Dangers of Ritual he boldly argues that the concept shouldn't be so central after all. Modern-day scholars, gently seduced by twentieth-century theories of ritual, often misinterpret medieval documents that ostensibly describe such events, in part because they fail to appreciate the intentions behind them. The book begins with four case studies whose arrangement--backward from texts on tenth-century kingship to fourth-century representations of Christian martyrdom--allows for the line of development to be peeled back layer by layer. It then turns to an analysis of the formation of the intellectual traditions that contemporary historians have employed to interpret medieval documents. Tracing the emergence of the concept of ritual from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century, Buc highlights the continuities yet also the profound transformations between the early medieval understandings and our own, social-scientific models. Medieval historians will find this book an indispensable resource for its insights into methodological issues crucial to their discipline. As Buc demonstrates, only rigorous attention to the contexts within which authors worked can allow us to reconstruct from medieval documents how ''rituals'' might have functioned. Ultimately, he argues, too swift an application of contemporary models to highly complex textual artifacts blinds us to the specificities of early medieval European political culture.

Author : Joel C. Kuipers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521624088

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Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia by Joel C. Kuipers Pdf

The rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of Indonesia has diminished the significance of local languages. On the island of Sumba, this shift has displaced a once vibrant tradition of ritual poetic speech, but has also given rise to new and hybrid forms of poetic expression. This book analyzes language change in relation to political marginality, revealing that political coercion or cognitive process of "style reduction" may offer a partial explanation, but equally important is the role of linguistic ideologies.

Author : N. J. Enfield,Paul Kockelman,Jack Sidnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1009014617

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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology by N. J. Enfield,Paul Kockelman,Jack Sidnell Pdf

The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, and the place of language in the social life of communities. Promoting a broad vision of the subject, spanning a range of disciplines from linguistics to biology, from psychology to sociology and philosophy, this authoritative handbook is an essential reference guide for students and researchers working on language and culture across the social sciences.