Sometimes we convey what we mean not by what we say but by what we do. This type of indirect communication is sometimes called 'indirection'. From patent miscommunication, through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence this incisive collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many aspects of indirect communication. From a Mormon Theme Park to carnival time on Montserrat the contributors analyse indirection by illustrating how food, silence, sunglasses, martial arts and rudeness call constitute powerful ways of conveying meaning. An Anthropology of Indirect Communication is an engaging text which provides a challenging introduction to this subject.
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Joy Hendry is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. Her main area of interest is Japan and her publications include An Anthropologist in Japan (1999). C.W. Watson is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is a specialist on Indonesia and Malaysia and his publications include Multiculturalism (2000).
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This paper is concerned with interactional systemics and language in personal usage, also with the extent to which indirection - understood as intentional and unintentional miscommunication - serves as a root metaphor for social interaction per se. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
calypso communication, mission spouses, prestige feasts, egalitarian enclaves, eliciting talk, behavioural forms, aikido practice, calypso competition, metonymic substitution, veiled speech, metaphoric speech, pig kill, authoritative language, farming way, indirect communication, temple ceremony, tourist art, court dance, perlocutionary acts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Foreign Office, The Montserrat Reporter, New Order, Clarendon Press, Chiang Mai, Guinea Bissau, University of Chicago Press, United States, Book of Mormon, Chiba Sensei, Cornell University Press, Corpus Christi, Polynesian Cultural Center, Wrapping Culture, Mary Douglas, Ministry of Culture, University of California Press, Academic Press, Athlone Press, Polity Press, Princeton University Press, San Francisco New!
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This paper is concerned with interactional systemics and language in personal usage, also with the extent to which indirection - understood as intentional and unintentional miscommunication - serves as a root metaphor for social interaction per se. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
calypso communication, mission spouses, prestige feasts, egalitarian enclaves, eliciting talk, behavioural forms, aikido practice, calypso competition, metonymic substitution, veiled speech, metaphoric speech, pig kill, authoritative language, farming way, indirect communication, temple ceremony, tourist art, court dance, perlocutionary acts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Foreign Office, The Montserrat Reporter, New Order, Clarendon Press, Chiang Mai, Guinea Bissau, University of Chicago Press, United States, Book of Mormon, Chiba Sensei, Cornell University Press, Corpus Christi, Polynesian Cultural Center, Wrapping Culture, Mary Douglas, Ministry of Culture, University of California Press, Academic Press, Athlone Press, Polity Press, Princeton University Press, San Francisco New!
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