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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141639103321

Autore

Groth Stefan

Titolo

Negotiating tradition : the pragmatics of international deliberations on cultural property / / Stefan Groth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Göttingen : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2012

ISBN

9783863951009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 190 pages ) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Collana

Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property ; ; Volume 4

Soggetti

Negotiation - Methodology

Pragmatics

Cultural property - Protection

Intellectual property - Protection

Cultural policy

Discourse analysis

Cultural property - Protection (International law)

Pragmatics - Protection

Intellectual property

Social Sciences

Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dissertation.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Communicative interactions in international negotiations on cultural property not only provide information about the emergence and proliferation of arguments, rhetorics, and registers, but also permit valuable insights into actors’ positions, strategies and alliances. They significantly influence local and national practices and views related to cultural property debates. What can be gained from a deep analysis of the communicative patterns and strategies that actors engage in – the entailing text and talk of negotiations – is a better understanding of the process itself: how do different actors argue, what kind of strategies and rhetorics do they use, to which instruments and institutions do they refer, and in what way do actors react to each other? An analysis of



communicative interactions contributes to the question of how international negotiations work. The analytic inclusion of sociolinguistic practices allows insights into positions, strategies, and perspectives pertaining to cultural property. By looking at not only what actors say, but also at how and in what contexts they do so, it is possible to make more accurate statements about their positions and perceptions in cultural property debates. As these communicative interactions influence outcomes considerably, an approach from linguistic anthropology is not only beneficial for an understanding of specific negotiations, but also for the analysis of broader cultural property issues.