On logophagy and truth

Interpretation through incorporation among Peruvian Urarina

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4358935
AutoresH Walker (0000-0001-9879-4045, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume63
Páginas15-22
Data de publicação2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage & Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0271-5309 • E-ISSN: 1873-3395
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.langcom.2018.03.003
OpenAlexW2796249470
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas27

This paper develops an Amazonian critique of Western theories of interpretation as grounded in correspondence between a proposition and a state of affairs, and of truth as correspondence between mind and reality. For the Peruvian Urarina, language has materiality and force and implies a non-arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified, and is moreover based in a very different mode of adequation of person to world: a process grounded in absorption rather than representation. The view that words are effectively consumed by others is exemplified by the baau genre of ritual discourse, in which a healer's speech is literally digested by the patient as a core part of the healing process

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Materiality · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Proposition · Representation · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity