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"Whorish Old Man" and "One (Animal) Gentleman"

2005; Wiley; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.81

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John B. Haviland,

Multilingual Education and Policy

Journal of Linguistic AnthropologyVolume 15, Issue 1 p. 81-94 "Whorish Old Man" and "One (Animal) Gentleman" John B. Haviland, John B. HavilandSearch for more papers by this author John B. Haviland, John B. HavilandSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.81Citations: 28AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Working with a series of narratives about a family dispute told over more than thirty years by an elderly Tzotzil-speaking Indian, from Chiapas, Mexico, I consider several puzzles about the widely espoused notion of the "textual self." Here the voices of others, perhaps more than that of the speaker whose self is being constituted, are centrally incorporated into his ongoing self-reflective biographical account. Moreover, as the narrator moves toward the end of his life, his story seems to lock itself into a closed discursive universe, in which the words of salient others become the repetitive, insistent, and inescapable theme of his self-conception and presentation. References Agha, Asif 1995 Review Article: Process and Personality. Semiotica 107(1/2): 125–146. Web of Science®Google Scholar Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1986 Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, eds. Vern W. McGee, trans. Austin : University of Texas Press. Google Scholar Bauman, Richard, and Charles Briggs 1990 Poetics and Performance as Critical Perspectives on Social Life. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 59–88. 10.1146/annurev.an.19.100190.000423 Web of Science®Google Scholar Cancian, Frank 1965 Economics and Prestige in a Maya Community: The Religious Cargo System in Zinacantan. Stanford : Stanford University Press. Google Scholar Crapanzano, Vincent 1996 Self-Centering Narratives. In Natural Histories of Discourse. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban, eds. Pp. 106–127. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar Davies, Bronwyn, and Rom Harré 1990 "Positioning": The Social Construction of Selves. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 20: 43–63. 10.1111/j.1468-5914.1990.tb00174.x Web of Science®Google Scholar Giddens, Anthony 1992 The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Cambridge : Polity Press. Google Scholar Goodwin, Marjorie Harness 1990 He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press. Google Scholar Haviland, John B. 1977 Gossip, Reputation and Knowledge in Zinacantan. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar Haviland, John B. 1987 Fighting Words: Evidential Particles, Affect and Argument. In Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, #13, Parasession on Grammar and Cognition. Pp. 343–354. Google Scholar Haviland, John B. 1994 [1992] Lenguaje Ritual Sin Ritual. Estudios de Cultura Maya XIX: 427–442. Google Scholar Haviland, John B. 1996 Text from Talk in Tzotzil. In Natural Histories of Discourse. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban, eds. Pp. 45–78. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar Haviland, John B. 2002 Evidential Mastery. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 38--2: 349–368. Google Scholar Irvine, Judith T. 1996 Shadow Conversations: The Indeterminacy of Participant Roles. In Natural Histories of Discourse. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban, eds. Pp. 131–159. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar Kundera, Milan 1995 Testaments Betrayed. New York : Harper Collins. Web of Science®Google Scholar Ochs, Elinor, Lisa Capps 1996 Narrating the Self. Annual Review of Anthropology 25: 19–43. 10.1146/annurev.anthro.25.1.19 Web of Science®Google Scholar Michael Silverstein, and Greg Urban, eds. 1996 Natural Histories of Discourse. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Web of Science®Google Scholar Taylor, Charles 1985 The Person. In The Category of the Person. Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, and Steven Lukes, eds. Pp. 257–281. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar Urban, Greg 1998 Metaphysical Communities. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. Google Scholar Citing Literature Volume15, Issue1June 2005Pages 81-94 ReferencesRelatedInformation