Talking Violence is a conversational journey around St. John's, reconstructing the repeated discussions about violence heard in bars, cars, courts-of-law, halfway houses, hospitals and the university. Rapport offers an interpretation of these conversations; arguing that language should not be viewed as an instrument of coercion directing its users to the reproduction of a monolithic social structure, but rather as a vehicle of creativeness allowing people to construct local identities for themselves and their own worlds of meaning.
| ISBN: | 9780919666566 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1987 |
| Author: | Nigel Rapport |
| Publisher: | ISER Books an imprint of Memorial University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Social and Economic Studies |
| Genres: |
Sociolinguistics Violence and abuse in society Urban communities Social and cultural anthropology |
Talking Violence is a conversational journey around St. John's, reconstructing the repeated discussions about violence heard in bars, cars, courts-of-law, halfway houses, hospitals and the university. Rapport offers an interpretation of these conversations; arguing that language should not be viewed as an instrument of coercion directing its users to the reproduction of a monolithic social structure, but rather as a vehicle of creativeness allowing people to construct local identities for themselves and their own worlds of meaning.
Talking Violence features in the following genres: Sociolinguistics, Violence and abuse in society, Urban communities, Social and cultural anthropology
Talking Violence is available in Paperback
Talking Violence was written by Nigel Rapport and published by ISER Books an imprint of Memorial University Press
Talking Violence has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Social and Economic Studies series
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