Title:
Practices of truth : an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts / Baudouin Dupret.
Pragmatics & beyond new series ;
Author:
Dupret, Baudouin.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharî‘a at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.
Publisher:
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Publication Place:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
ISBN:
9789027256171 (hbk.)
Subject:
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Arab countries.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Ethnology -- Arab countries.
Series:
Pragmatics & beyond new series ; v. 214
Contents:
Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharî‘a at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.
Physical Description:
xiv, 173 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
2011.
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