Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

Acknowledgements



Introduction



Part 1: Communication as Transaction and Becoming



1. From Multilingual Classification to Translingual Ontology: A Turning Point



2. Emergent and Stabilised Multilingualism: Polyethnic Peer Groups in Urban Kenya



3. Language Choice in Two Kampala Housing Estates



4. Language Switching in Nairobi



5. The Creativity of Abuse



6. Exchanging Words



Part 2: Political and Formulaic Communication



7. Political Language



8. Language, Government and the Play on Purity and Impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the Vernaculars in Kenya



9. Being and Selfhood among Intermediary Swahili



10. Controlling the U-turn of Knowledge



11. The Politics of Naming Among the Giriama



Part 3: The Materiality of Language and Communication



12. Unpacking Anthropology



13. Revisiting: Keywords, Transforming Phrases, and Cultural Concepts



14. Loud Ethics and Quiet Morality among Muslim Healers in Eastern Africa



15. Reason, Emotion, and the Embodiment of Power



16. The Power of Incompleteness: Innuendo in Swahili Women's Dress



17. Simultaneity and Sequencing in the Oracular Speech of Kenyan Diviners



References

Index

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• Sociolinguística
• Semiótica / semiologia
• Antropologia social e cultural

Linguistic ethnography; cross-cultural semantics; political language; semiosis; sociolinguistics; semiotics; linguistic anthropology; communication; social interaction; ethnography; materiality of language and communication; formulaic communication; political communication; language switching; language choice; anthropology of language use; non-verbal communication; verbal communication; semantics