P C Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 70785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P C Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | P C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2980-6932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making fun of the standard tongue
This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non-standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently situated Kurdish audiences, while also promoting alternative ideological perspectives through which the contra…
The spirit of the book cafe
Mesopotamia and the Garden of Civilizations
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of mass media to explore how public life is perceived and made by residents in Turkey's Syrian borderlands. Deploying two case studies from the ethnically and religiously diverse border provinces of Mardin and Hatay, we investigate how people in these borderlands contest and renegotiate terms of solidarity across multiple forms of social difference, considering how this process both respon…
Signs of Solidarity and Difference
In Turkey, tea is a near-universally consumed beverage that also operates as a salient moral and political sign in social life. This article describes how tea functions as a “medium of value” in the country, circulating as both a physical commodity and a multivalent sign vehicle that is closely linked in popular imagination to modern modes of egalitarian sociability and the formation of Turkey’s postwar multiparty democracy. In describing the sem…
Making fun of the standard tongue
This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non-standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently situated Kurdish audiences, while also promoting alternative ideological perspectives through which the contra…
Signs of Solidarity and Difference
In Turkey, tea is a near-universally consumed beverage that also operates as a salient moral and political sign in social life. This article describes how tea functions as a “medium of value” in the country, circulating as both a physical commodity and a multivalent sign vehicle that is closely linked in popular imagination to modern modes of egalitarian sociability and the formation of Turkey’s postwar multiparty democracy. In describing the sem…
The spirit of the book cafe
Signs of Solidarity and Difference
In Turkey, tea is a near-universally consumed beverage that also operates as a salient moral and political sign in social life. This article describes how tea functions as a “medium of value” in the country, circulating as both a physical commodity and a multivalent sign vehicle that is closely linked in popular imagination to modern modes of egalitarian sociability and the formation of Turkey’s postwar multiparty democracy. In describing the sem…
The spirit of the book cafe
Mesopotamia and the Garden of Civilizations
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of mass media to explore how public life is perceived and made by residents in Turkey's Syrian borderlands. Deploying two case studies from the ethnically and religiously diverse border provinces of Mardin and Hatay, we investigate how people in these borderlands contest and renegotiate terms of solidarity across multiple forms of social difference, considering how this process both respon…
Making fun of the standard tongue
This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non-standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently situated Kurdish audiences, while also promoting alternative ideological perspectives through which the contra…
Mathematics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Ancient Near East History (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 work) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (1 work) · First language (1 work)