Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 7) PDF
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DISORDERLY DISCOURSE OXFORD STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS William Bright, General Editor I. Gunter Senft Classificatory Particles in Kilivila 2. Janis B. Nuckolls Sounds Like Life: Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua 3. David B. Kronenfeld Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition 4. Lyle Campbell American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of North America 5. Chase Hensel Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska 6. Rosaleen Howard-Malverde (ed.) Creating Context in Andean Cultures 7. Charles L. Briggs (ed.) Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality DISORDERLY DISCOURSE Narrative, Conflict, & Inequality EDITED BY CHARLES L. BRIGGS New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS I996 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © I996 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. I98 Madison Avenue, New York, New York I00I6 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Narrative resources for the creation and mediation of conflict / edited by Charles L. Briggs. Includes index. p. cm.—(Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 7) Contents: Introduction / Charles L. Briggs— Telling troubles: narrative, conflict, and experience / Donald Brenneis—The trickster's scattered self/ Ellen B. Basso—Embarrassment as pride : narrative resourcefulness and strategies of normativity among Cretan animal-thieves / Michael Herzfeld—Detective stories at dinnertime / Elinor Ochs, Ruth C. Smith, and Carolyn E. Taylor—Ideological dissonance in the American legal system / William M. O'Barr and John M. Conley—Consensus and dissent in U.S. legal opinions / Elizabeth Mertz—"We want to borrow your mouth" : Tzotzil marital squabbles / John B. Haviland—Disorderly dialogues in ritual impositions of order : the role of metapragmatics in Warao dispute mediation / Charles L. Briggs. ISBN 0-I9-508776-3.—ISBN 0-19-508777-1 (pbk.) I. Discourse analysis, Narrative. 2. Conversational analysis. 3. Conflict management. 4. Language and culture. I. Briggs, Charles L., I953- . II. Series. P302.7.N38 I996 40I'.4I—dc2O 95-4600I All the selections in this volume, except for the introductory chapter and chapter 3, were originally published, in different form, in the journal Anthropological Linguistics (vol. 30, nos 3-4, I988), and are reprinted by permission. Chapter 4, "Detective Stories at Dinnertime: Problem Solving Through Co- Narration," was originally published in I989, in different form, in the journal Cultural Dynamics (vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 238-57) and is likewise reprinted by permission. 98765432I Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents Contributors vii Introduction / Charles L. Briggs 3 Telling Troubles: Narrative, Conflict, and Experience / Donald Brenneis 4I The Trickster's Scattered Self / Ellen B. Basso 53 Embarrassment as Pride: Narrative Resourcefulness and Strategies of Normativity Among Cretan Animal-Thieves / Michael Herzfeld 72 Detective Stories at Dinnertime: Problem Solving Through Co-Narration / Elinor Ochs, Ruth C. Smith, and Carolyn E. Taylor 95 Ideological Dissonance in the American Legal System / William M. O'Barr and John M. Conley II4 Consensus and Dissent in U.S. Legal Opinions: Narrative Structure and Social Voices / Elizabeth Mertz I35 "We Want to Borrow Your Mouth": Tzotzil Marital Squabbles / John B. Haviland I58 Conflict, Language Ideologies, and Privileged Arenas of Discursive Authority in Warao Dispute Mediations / Charles L. Briggs 204 This page intentionally left blank Contributors ELLEN B. BASSO Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona DONALD BRENNEIS Anthropology Board of Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz CHARLES L. BRIGGS Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego JOHN M. CONLEY Law School, University of North Carolina JOHN B. HAVILAND Department of Linguistics, Reed College MICHAEL HERZFELD Department of Anthropology, Harvard University ELIZABETH MERTZ Northwestern University School of Law, American Bar Foundation, Chicago WILLIAM M. O'BARR Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University ELINOR OCHS Department of TESL/Applied Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles RUTH C. SMITH Department of Communication, Purdue University CAROLYN E. TAYLOR Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This page intentionally left blank DISORDERLY DISCOURSE
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