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On the receiving end: Cultural frames for communicative acts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea.

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書名/作者:	On the receiving end: Cultural frames for communicative acts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea.
作者:	Slotta, James.
面頁冊數:	318 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-02(E), Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-02(E)A.
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural.
標題:	Sociology, Sociolinguistics.
標題:	Language, General.
ISBN:	9781267610744
摘要、提要註:	The dissertation offers an ethnographic account of conceptualizations of communication prominent in a Melanesian society and the central role that they play in engagements with (trans)national projects common in post-colonial Papua New Guinea -- Christian missionization, national education, and international NGO projects ameliorating various "failures" in this "failed state." For the Yopno, communication is not conceptualized as the transmission of information from an agentive sender to a passive recipient. Communicative encounters are ideally a meeting of two (or more) autonomous persons mediated by talk, an interaction in which the recipient as well as the sender acts. In such a framing, recipients are more than passive "recipients" of information, they act (or actively don't act) on talk, a prerogative that should be respected by the speaker.
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On the receiving end: Cultural frames for communicative acts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea.
Slotta, James.

On the receiving end: Cultural frames for communicative acts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea. - 318 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-02(E), Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2012.

The dissertation offers an ethnographic account of conceptualizations of communication prominent in a Melanesian society and the central role that they play in engagements with (trans)national projects common in post-colonial Papua New Guinea -- Christian missionization, national education, and international NGO projects ameliorating various "failures" in this "failed state." For the Yopno, communication is not conceptualized as the transmission of information from an agentive sender to a passive recipient. Communicative encounters are ideally a meeting of two (or more) autonomous persons mediated by talk, an interaction in which the recipient as well as the sender acts. In such a framing, recipients are more than passive "recipients" of information, they act (or actively don't act) on talk, a prerogative that should be respected by the speaker.

ISBN: 9781267610744Subjects--Topical Terms:

423310
Anthropology, Cultural.

On the receiving end: Cultural frames for communicative acts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea.
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520 $a At the same time, the ability of a speaker to compel recipients to act is a mark of political acumen and power, widely held up as an ideal. This tension in Yopno communicative and political life between autonomy/egalitarianism and coercion/hierarchy underpins a potent and prevalent speech genre: revelation. Revelatory speech acts locate the speaker in a realm of rarefied knowledge apart from and above the recipient, legitimating a speaker's efforts to compel recipients to action and more broadly legitimating age-graded and gendered power asymmetries institutionalized in the men's cult and now educational and religious institutions of the post-colonial era.
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