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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821979003321

Autore

Rockwell B. Hannah

Titolo

The life of voices [[electronic resource] ] : bodies, subjects and dialogue / / B. Hannah Rockwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-136-73934-3

0-203-81889-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Social aspects

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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