Language and Disputing

Brenneis, Donald

doi:10.1146/annurev.an.17.100188.001253

Cited by 90 publications

(21 citation statements)

References 85 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The ethno‐linguistic approach explores communicative strategies asking, “how do different actors argue, what kind of strategies and rhetoric do they use, to which instruments and institutions do they refer, and in what way do actors react to each other?” (Groth ). An ethnography of speaking has been used for analyzing the role of speech in political events (Brenneis and Myers ; Gal ) and conflicts (Brenneis ), as well as in the study of political representation and communicative performance (Gal ; Yankah ).…”

Section: Method: An Ethno‐linguistic Microanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Strategy, or the strategic use of language in negotiations, does not necessarily coincide with intentional communicative behavior (Brenneis : 228–229). At times, what we were dealing with was the unconscious, intuitive, or habitualized use of pragmatic strategies that played with emotions, strove for precedence, imposed, coerced.…”

Section: Method: An Ethno‐linguistic Microanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The Real Dirt on Responsible Agricultural Investments at Rio+20: Multilateralism versus Corporate Self-Regulation

Müller

Cloiseau²

2015

Law Soc Rev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article uses a fine‐grained anthropological and linguistic analysis to expose the routine negotiating practices and power games behind the conclusion of paragraph 115 on responsible agricultural investments during the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012. These negotiations are simultaneously a telling example for the quotidian stuff of international governance—an arena in which much larger forces are played out through small language‐based tactics, and they are representative of an exceptional moment when global multilateral policy making in the frame of the United Nations was challenged by the legitimation of private authority and corporate self‐regulation. Combining anthropological and linguistic methods, the article focused on language use, analyzing the ways in which people interact in a highly coded language, how they “perform,” by exploring, playing with, and twisting the grammatical structures of the spoken language. At issue is the large‐scale appropriation of agricultural land all over the world by multinational corporations, investment funds, and foreign governments. 115. We reaffirm the important work and inclusive nature of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), including through its role in facilitating country‐initiated assessments on sustainable food production and food security, and we encourage countries to give due consideration to implementing the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. We take note of the on‐going discussions on responsible agricultural investment in the framework of the CFS, as well as the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment (PRAI).

show abstract

Section: Method: An Ethno‐linguistic Microanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Method: An Ethno‐linguistic Microanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The Real Dirt on Responsible Agricultural Investments at Rio+20: Multilateralism versus Corporate Self-Regulation

Müller

Cloiseau²

2015

Law Soc Rev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Such counter‐examples of contact without communion appear obvious when mentioned. Much like we know that disputes, arguments, and physical violence exist and are linguistically mediated (e.g., Brenneis ; Pagliai ), so too do we easily recognize that communicative contact is often aggressive, unwanted, or unremarkable. Nevertheless, the assumption that contact creates communion continues.…”

Section: Contact Tropes and The Two Phaticitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phatic Violence? Gambling and the Arts of Distraction in Laos

Zuckerman

2016

J Linguistic Anthropol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“Tempted,” as he put it, by the “demon of terminological invention,” Malinowski first coined the term “phatic” as one half of a two‐word compound, “phatic communion.” Since Malinowski, “phatic” has often been used to imply a semiotic equation where mere communicative contact automatically produces positive social relations among those communicating. This article explores a genre of “trash talk” on the pétanque gambling courts of Luang Prabang, Laos to challenge this assumption and clarify multiple senses of “phaticity.” With close attention to talk used not for positive communion but for distraction, I argue that communicative contact as a technical phenomenon must be separated from communicative contact as a sign of other kinds of meaning.

show abstract

“…1 See for example papers cited in Brenneis (1988) and Grimshaw (1990), and recent PhD dissertations such as Meyer (1996); Dorrill (1997); Scott (1998); among others discussed below. The author also acknowledges the editorial assistance of Paul D. Fallon.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discourse and Conflict

Kakava¹

2005

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Language and Disputing

Cited by 90 publications

References 85 publications

The Real Dirt on Responsible Agricultural Investments at Rio+20: Multilateralism versus Corporate Self-Regulation

The Real Dirt on Responsible Agricultural Investments at Rio+20: Multilateralism versus Corporate Self-Regulation

Phatic Violence? Gambling and the Arts of Distraction in Laos

Discourse and Conflict

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About