TY - BOOK AU - Parkin,David TI - The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making T2 - Encounters SN - 9781800411470 AV - P35.5.A353 U1 - 306.4409676 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Language and culture KW - Africa, East KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Semiotics / semiology KW - Social & cultural anthropology KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part 1: Communication as Transaction and Becoming --; Part 2: Political and Formulaic Communication --; Part 3: The Materiality of Language and Communication --; References: Introduction and Parts 1–3 Commentaries --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800411487 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800411487 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800411487/original ER -