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Practices of truth : an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts / Baudouin Dupret.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 214.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027284655
  • 9027284652
  • 1283314770
  • 9781283314770
  • 9786613314772
  • 6613314773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Practices of truth.DDC classification:
  • 306.440917/5927 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1428.A73 D87 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.
Summary: The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a "member phenomenon". To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and events, on what is factual or objective, on predictability, consequentiality, intentionality, causality, and on the many ways people orient to them, such a varied set of questions appears thoroughly moral. The praxeological respecification this book undertakes leads to important considerations regarding t

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.

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The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a "member phenomenon". To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and events, on what is factual or objective, on predictability, consequentiality, intentionality, causality, and on the many ways people orient to them, such a varied set of questions appears thoroughly moral. The praxeological respecification this book undertakes leads to important considerations regarding t

English.