1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822027503321

Autore

Goldstein Donna M

Titolo

Laughter out of place : race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / / Donna M. Goldstein ; with a new preface

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-520-95541-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

California Series in Public Anthropology

Disciplina

305.5/68/098153

Soggetti

Marginality, Social - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Poor - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Slums - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Violence - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Sex - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Race relations

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter "Out of Place" -- Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Domination. Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic Workers -- Chapter 3. Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- Chapter 4. No Time for Childhood -- Chapter 5. State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 6. Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire -- Chapter 7. What's So Funny about Rape? -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. The book offers a clear-eyed view of socially



conditioned misery while focusing on the creative responses-absurdist and black humor-that people generate amid daily conditions of humiliation, anger, and despair. Goldstein helps us to understand that such joking and laughter is part of an emotional aesthetic that defines the sense of frustration and anomie endemic to the political and economic desperation among residents of the shantytown.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962262003321

Autore

Love Nigel

Titolo

Generative phonology : a case-study from French / / Nigel Love

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins B.V., 1981

ISBN

1-283-32890-9

9786613328908

90-272-8090-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Lingvisticæ investigationes. Supplementa ; ; v. 4

Disciplina

441/.5

Soggetti

French language - Phonology

French language - Grammar, Generative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

U.S. place of publication stamped on t.p.

Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oxford.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

GENERATIVE PHONOLOGYA Case-Study from French; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; FINAL SEGMENTS AND GENDER INFLECTION IN FRENCH; 1. THE DELETION RULES; 1.1 Liaison as non-deletion; 1.2 Liaison as metathesis; 1.3 Liaison as syntax; 2. EXCEPTIONS TO THE DELETION RULES; 2.1 There are exceptions to the deletion rules; 2.2 There are no exceptions to the deletion rules; 2.3 There are exceptions to the deletion rules; 3. INVARIANT ADJECTIVES; 3.1 Vowel-final stems; 3.2 Consonant-final stems; 4. THE SCOPE OF THE DELETION RULES

4.1 Nasals and nasalisation4.2 Derivational augments and 'secondary derivation'·; 5. ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; 5.1 There is no consonant deletion rule: liaison as epenthesis; 5.2 There is a (minor) consonant



deletion rule; 6. THE FUNCTIONAL UNITY OF ELISION AND LIAISON; 6.1 Elision and liaison as natural rules; 6.2 Elision and liaison as conspiratorial rules; 7. SUMMARY; 7.1 Final segments; 7.2 Gender inflection; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

This study is a discussion of, rather than a contribution to, generative phonology. The central question posed, is: Does linguistic theory provide a basis for choosing between competing grammars - that is, an evaluation procedure for grammars? If so, then what is its form? If not, then how are we to interpret controversies between linguists as to the relative merits of competing grammars? These issues will be discussed in relation to a particular problem of evaluation in the treatment of the morphonology of final segments in Modern French.