Robin Shoaps
Biographic Data
| ID | 83147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Shoaps |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Shoaps |
| SIGNATURE | SHOAPS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Directives, Moral Authority, and Deontic Stance-Taking in Sakapultek Maya
Directives are the primary grammatical resource in Sakapultek for speakers' self-positioning with regard to notions of necessity, obligation, and responsibility. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of naturally occurring talk, I argue that such deontic stances require grounding in a locus of moral authority and index idealized relationship types among participants in a communicative event; distinguishing the multiplicity of Sakapultek …
Moral irony: Modal particles, moral persons and indirect stance-taking in Sakapultek discourse
This paper presents an ethnographically sensitive account of a family of modal constructions in Sakapultek, a Mayan language spoken in highland Guatemala. The constructions in question share many characteristics with those that have been analyzed as ironic in English and are dubbed "moral irony," due both to their similarities to irony in other languages and to their primary interactional function. The morphosyntactic composition and semiotic pro…
Ritual and (im)moral voices: Locating the Testament of Judas in Sakapultek communicative ecology
In this article, I examine el Testamento de Judas (the Testament of Judas), an annual letter "from" Judas Iscariot to the townspeople of Sacapulas, Guatemala. Drawing on a conceptual framework that synthesizes Bakhtinian concepts of voice and speech genres, I argue that the characteristics of the Testament of Judas serve to create idealized "voices" that reflect stances toward its content and audience. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the Testamen…
Ritual and (im)moral voices: Locating the Testament of Judas in Sakapultek communicative ecology
In this article, I examine el Testamento de Judas (the Testament of Judas), an annual letter "from" Judas Iscariot to the townspeople of Sacapulas, Guatemala. Drawing on a conceptual framework that synthesizes Bakhtinian concepts of voice and speech genres, I argue that the characteristics of the Testament of Judas serve to create idealized "voices" that reflect stances toward its content and audience. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the Testamen…
Moral irony: Modal particles, moral persons and indirect stance-taking in Sakapultek discourse
This paper presents an ethnographically sensitive account of a family of modal constructions in Sakapultek, a Mayan language spoken in highland Guatemala. The constructions in question share many characteristics with those that have been analyzed as ironic in English and are dubbed "moral irony," due both to their similarities to irony in other languages and to their primary interactional function. The morphosyntactic composition and semiotic pro…
Ritual and (im)moral voices: Locating the Testament of Judas in Sakapultek communicative ecology
In this article, I examine el Testamento de Judas (the Testament of Judas), an annual letter "from" Judas Iscariot to the townspeople of Sacapulas, Guatemala. Drawing on a conceptual framework that synthesizes Bakhtinian concepts of voice and speech genres, I argue that the characteristics of the Testament of Judas serve to create idealized "voices" that reflect stances toward its content and audience. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the Testamen…
Moral irony: Modal particles, moral persons and indirect stance-taking in Sakapultek discourse
This paper presents an ethnographically sensitive account of a family of modal constructions in Sakapultek, a Mayan language spoken in highland Guatemala. The constructions in question share many characteristics with those that have been analyzed as ironic in English and are dubbed "moral irony," due both to their similarities to irony in other languages and to their primary interactional function. The morphosyntactic composition and semiotic pro…
Directives, Moral Authority, and Deontic Stance-Taking in Sakapultek Maya
Directives are the primary grammatical resource in Sakapultek for speakers' self-positioning with regard to notions of necessity, obligation, and responsibility. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of naturally occurring talk, I argue that such deontic stances require grounding in a locus of moral authority and index idealized relationship types among participants in a communicative event; distinguishing the multiplicity of Sakapultek …
Anthropology (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Deontic logic (1 works) · Directive (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Formality (1 works)