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Talking Violence : An Anthropological Interpretation of Conversation in the City
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780919666566
- ISBN-10: 0919666566
- Publisher: ISER Books
- Publish Date: January 1987
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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