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Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World: Brill Kurdish Studies, cartea 01

Autor Alex Pillen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 sep 2024
In Endurance , Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such uniqueness.
When a culture is under siege and many have lost a former way of life it may not be clear how a society looks itself in the mirror, finds its reflection. Alex Pillen’s portrayal of Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World locates such lines of reflection within everyday language. The fear of a random geopolitical pair of dice is global, a fear to be honed when reading this account of uniqueness in the face of totalising loss
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004709515
ISBN-10: 9004709517
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Brill Kurdish Studies


Notă biografică

Alex Pillen , MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She explores language in war-torn societies from a cultural perspective and is the author of A Space That Will Never Be Filled (2017)

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Transcripts
Note on the Kurdish Alphabet (Kurmanji)

1 Waking Up—Alone
1 Introduction
2 Speaking Kurdish
3 A Living Dictionary
4 Approach
5 Chapter Outline

2 Reality’s Linguistic Shape—Evidential Texture
1 Introduction
2 The Face of Cruelty
3 Evidential Finesse
4 A Mood Too
5 The Confirmation of Reality

3 Precision and Autonymy—Direct Quotation
1 Introduction
2 Quotation
3 Rhythmic Flow
4 Subtle Patterns
5 Autonymy
6 On Exactitude

4 Like I Say—Often
1 Introduction
2 Words That Only Go Half-Way
3 Like I Say
4 Solidity
5 Lived Uniqueness

5 A Space Of One’s Own In Language—The Reflexive Pronoun
1 Introduction
2 What Belongs to Oneself
3 A Sense of Self, Respect and the Divine
4 A Space of One’s Own

6 A Pronoun’s Shadow—Being Genuine Without Name
1 Introduction
2 Segmentary Resonance
3Xwe’s Shadow
4 The Ban on X and W

7 Acoustic Ambiguity—The Intonation Of Painful Injustice
1 Introduction
2 Mournful Tones
3 An Invitation to Listen
4 Tonal Intertextuality
5 Coda

8 The Endurance Of Second-Hand Reality—Conclusion
1 Introduction
2 Enduring Keynotes
3 Second-Hand
4 Singularity

Bibliography
Index