Practices of truth
Subtitle: an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts
By: Baudouin Dupret
Series: Pragmatics & beyond new series; v. 214
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9789027256171; 9789027284655
Subjects: Ethnology; Truthfulness and falsehood; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb; title: The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level; title: Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters; title: The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation; title: Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror; title: Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital; title: Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.