On speaking terms: avoidance registers and the sociolinguistics of kinship
Auteur :
Fleming, Luke
Éditeur :
University of Toronto Press
ISBN :
9781487549701
Date de publication :
24 déc. 2024
Dimensions :
23,5 x 16,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
620 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Canada
Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into “joking†and “avoidance†relations? With a particular focus on avoidance relationships, On Speaking Terms argues that in order to understand cross-cultural convergences in the patterning of kinship-keyed comportments, we must attend to the sociolinguistic codes through which kinship relationships are enacted.