{"product_id":"the-art-of-language-9789004510388","title":"The Art of Language","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book contributes to opening up disciplinary knowledge and offering connections between different approaches to language in contemporary linguistics. Rather than focusing on a particular single methodology or theoretical assumption, the volume presents part of the wealth of linguistic knowledge as an intertwined project, which combines numerous practices, positionalities and perspectives. The editors believe¸ together with the contributors to this volume¸ that it is a crucial and timely task to emphasize the relevance of linguistic knowledge on power, hospitality, social class, marginalization, mobility, history, secrecy, the structures of discourse, and the construction of meaning, as knowledge that needs to be brought together – as it is brought together in personal discussions, conversations and encounters. To work along traces of linguistic connectivity, marginalized narratives, in and on lesser studied (often stigmatized) language practices and to shed light on the tasks of linguistics in making diverse knowledges transparent—this offers spaces for critical discussion on the ethics of linguistics, its challenges, contributions and tasks. These are the approaches that are characteristic for the work of Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, to whom this book is dedicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors    1 Linguistics as Art, Language as Joy   Anne Storch and R.M.W. Dixon    Part 1 How to Be Welcoming and Hospitable    2 Truthiness and Language—Popular Perception and Fall-Out   Kate Burridge    3 At the Heart of the Murui   Katarzyna I. Wojtylak    4 While We Are Not yet Dead: Themes of Love and Loss in a Kandozi-Chapra Drinking Song   Simon Overall    5 Research, Rituals and Reciprocity: The Promises of Hospitality in Fieldwork   Rosita Henry and Michael Wood    6 Zande Politeness Strategies and Their Verbal Expressions   Helma Pasch    7 Sensual Language: Three Stories   Anne Storch    8 Othering Based on Communicative (In)competence: Examples from West Africa   Felix Ameka    9 On Politeness and the Expression of Socially Valued Behaviour in Tarma Quechua Verbs   Willem Adelaar    Part 2 How to Imbue Words with Power    10 The Power of Kin Terms in White Hmong: Reinforcing Rights and Duties and Redefining Identity   Nerida Jarkey    11 Imbuing Words with Power in Ersu   Sihong Zhang    12 Commands, Curses, Blessings and Invocations among the Iraqw of Tanzania   Maarten Mous    13 Directive Speech Acts: Imperatives and Hortatives in Northen Amis (Austronesian)   Isabelle Bril    14 The Healing Words of the Ayoreo   Luca Ciucci    Part 3 How to Keep Languages Strong    15 Kumatharo, Mother of the Tariana, Mother of the World   Jovino Brito    16 Appreciation of Alexandra Aikhenvald   James Sesu Laki    17 The Near Future Tense in Child and Child-Directed Nungon Speech: A Case Study   Hannah Sarvasy    18 Ngiä dm bloyag dand: Coconut Stories from Southern New Guinea   Dineke Schokkin    19 Code Copying and the Strength of Languages   Lars Johanson and Éva Á. Csató    20 Blurring the Lines at InField\/CoLang: Examining Inclusion and Impacts   Carol Genetti and Carlos M. Nash    21 Working with the Last Guardians of a Language   R.M.W. Dixon    Part 4 How to Make Language Transparent    22 The Particle ba: A Mirative Strategy in Greek   Angeliki Alvanoudi    23 How Grammar Encodes Knowledge in Munya: Evidentiality, Egophoricity, and Mirativity   Junwei Bai    24 Nominal Incorporation in Shiwilu (Kawapanan): Nouns, Classifiers and the Deceased Marker =ku’   Pilar Valenzuela    25 Utilitarian versus Intellectualist Explanations of Lexical Content: A False Dichotomy   N.J. Enfield    26 On Language Use beyond the Sentence: The Role of Discourse Markers in Akie   Bernd Heine and Christa König    27 The Semantics of Adverbial Clause Linking in Mongolic Languages: Evaluation of Events and Relations between Them   Elena Skribnik    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210839974231,"sku":"9789004510388","price":143.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-art-of-language-9789004510388","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}