On Speaking Terms

On Speaking Terms

Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship

Fleming, Luke

University of Toronto Press

01/2025

296

Dura

9781487549701

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Introduction: The Total Orientation
Part I: Proscriptive Regimes of Language and Avoidance Registers
1. Avoidance Lexicon, Everyday Grammar: Why Words Are Good to Proscribe
2. Many to One: Lexicon Asymmetries in Avoidance Registers
Part II: The Sounds of Reference: Name Taboos
3. Name Registers: A Sociolinguistic Kind
4. Rigid Performativity: Cross-Cultural Convergences in Name Registers
Part III: The Anti-phatic Function: Interactional Avoidances
5. Not on Speaking Terms: Closing and Re-routing Channels of Communication
6. Out of Touch: Sensory Avoidances and the Multimodality of Mutuality
Part IV: The Pattern That Connects: Avoidance Registers as Scalar Honorific Formations
7. The Pragmatic Suspension of Semantic Distinctions: Honorific Pronouns in Kinship Avoidance
8. Degrees of Unfreedom: Formal Encompassment and the Structure of Avoidance Levels
Conclusion: The Mutuality of Being Apart
References
Index
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linguistics; anthropology of language; sociolinguistics; avoidance; grammar; communication; multimodal communication; honorific pronouns; family relationships; kinship; deference; speaking terms