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Language for Those Who Have Nothing
Peter Good
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Description for Language for Those Who Have Nothing
Hardback. Aims to think psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. This book uses the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the Chronotope as a means of navigating the clinical landscape. It explores the context of psychiatry's unofficial voices: its terminology, jokes, parodies, and everyday narratives. Series: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 561.
The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to think psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is developed.
Bakhtin offers language as a social phenomenon and one that is fully embodied. Utterances are shown to be alive and enfleshed and their meanings realised in the context of given social dimensions. The organisation of this book corresponds with carnival practices of taking the high down to the ... Read more
The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to think psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is developed.
Bakhtin offers language as a social phenomenon and one that is fully embodied. Utterances are shown to be alive and enfleshed and their meanings realised in the context of given social dimensions. The organisation of this book corresponds with carnival practices of taking the high down to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Series
Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306465024
SKU
V9780306465024
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