{"product_id":"on-speaking-terms-avoidance-registers-and-the-sociolinguistics-of-kinship-hardback-9781487549701","title":"On Speaking Terms; Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship (Hardback) 9781487549701","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn Speaking Terms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAvoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuke Owles Fleming (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487549701\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into \"joking\" and \"avoidance\" relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Tylor and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown to Sigmund Freud and Claude Lévi-Strauss, have sought to explain why some classes of kin are normatively expected to prank and tease one another while others must studiously avoid each other\u0026amp;#x2019;s presence. In this extensively researched comparative study, linguistic anthropologist Luke Owles Fleming offers a bold new answer to this problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a particular focus on avoidance relationships, \u003cem\u003eOn Speaking Terms\u003c\/em\u003e 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. Drawing on ethnographic data from more than one hundred different societies, the book documents and analyses parallels in the linguistic and non-verbal signs through which avoidance relationships are experientially realized. With dedicated discussions of Aboriginal Australian \"mother-in-law languages,\" name and word tabooing practices, pronominal honorification, and non-verbal strategies of interactional and sensorial avoidance, it reveals recurrent sociolinguistic patterns attested in kinship avoidance. In demonstrating the vital role of sociolinguistic codes for transforming kinship categories into phenomenologically rich relationships, \u003cem\u003eOn Speaking Terms\u003c\/em\u003e makes an important contribution to the anthropology of kinship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: The Total Orientation\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Proscriptive Regimes of Language and Avoidance Registers\u003cbr\u003e1. Avoidance Lexicon, Everyday Grammar: Why Words Are Good to Proscribe\u003cbr\u003e2. Many to One: Lexicon Asymmetries in Avoidance Registers\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The Sounds of Reference: Name Taboos\u003cbr\u003e3. Name Registers: A Sociolinguistic Kind\u003cbr\u003e4. Rigid Performativity: Cross-Cultural Convergences in Name Registers\u003cbr\u003ePart III: The Anti-phatic Function: Interactional Avoidances\u003cbr\u003e5. Not on Speaking Terms: Closing and Re-routing Channels of Communication\u003cbr\u003e6. Out of Touch: Sensory Avoidances and the Multimodality of Mutuality\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: The Pattern That Connects: Avoidance Registers as Scalar Honorific Formations\u003cbr\u003e7. The Pragmatic Suspension of Semantic Distinctions: Honorific Pronouns in Kinship Avoidance\u003cbr\u003e8. Degrees of Unfreedom: Formal Encompassment and the Structure of Avoidance Levels\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Mutuality of Being Apart\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681425289496,"sku":"9781487549701","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-speaking-terms-avoidance-registers-and-the-sociolinguistics-of-kinship-hardback-9781487549701","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}