Full Description
This book provides empirical and theoretical accounts of poetics from a sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological perspective, highlighting the poesis of everyday living.
The authors not only regard poetry as a literary genre or a form of aesthetic performance, but also aim to clarify how everyday practices, such as casual conversation, radio broadcasting, sightseeing tours, classroom instruction, and reciprocal singing, are imbued with poetic (inter)actions achieved through senses, bodies, materials, and the environment. Such mediums are shown to be appropriated here and now in accordance with the ongoing social actions gleaned from the contributors' fields of research and expertise. Examples include classroom instruction and local festivals in Japan, music contests in China, rock climbing and public demonstrations in the USA, radio/TV broadcasts in Hawai'i and the USA, and tourist guidance in New Zealand, among others.
Building on major poetic theories in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and pragmatics, such as ethnopoetics, ritual poetics, and dialogic resonance, this book offers a showcase of highly interdisciplinary, cutting-edge approaches to poetic analysis that range from micro-interactional exchanges to macro-sociocultural issues surrounding poetic 'texts'. With such a diversity of activity, language, and approach, the authors cultivate novel ways in which multiple senses and modalities contribute to various forms of poesis, as well as to often-consequential social relations associated with the practices. The findings present students and researchers of language with an opportunity to re-evaluate the width and depth of poetic practice, as well as clues to enhance analytic sophistication through the multi/crossmodal engagement with dynamic poesis that seeps into everyday life.
Contents
Introduction: What, Why, and How of (Meta- )Discursive Poetics, Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University, Japan), Makiko Takekuro (Waseda University, Japan) and Takeshi Enomoto (The University of Osaka, Japan)
Part I. Ethnopoetic Reformation
1. Ethnopoetic Kata in an Insular Community in Okinawa, Makiko Takekuro (Waseda University, Japan)
2. Melody of Asian Reciprocal Songs as Linguistic Communicative Infrastructure, Gaku Kajimaru (Kyoto University, Japan)
3. Poetic Construction of Vertical Space, Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University, Japan)
Part II. Poetic Inequalities and Beyond
4. Poetic Performance in Wine- Tasting Tourism Interaction, Hiroko Takanashi (Japan Women's University, Japan)
5. An Evolutionary Approach to the Poetics of Ritual, Masataka Yamaguchi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
6. Poetic Emergence and Chronotopic Regimentation of Qualia, Takeshi Enomoto (The University of Osaka, Japan)
7. Interactional Poetics in Hawaiian Media, Toshiaki Furukawa (Waseda University, Japan)
8. Parallelism, Resonance, and the Pragmatic Forces of a Plea, Risako Ide (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Part III. Recapturing Poetics
9. The Poetic Imperative, William O. Beeman (Emeritus, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA)
10. Quo Vadimus?: Toward Plurimodal Poetics, Makiko Takekuro (Waseda University, Japan), Takeshi Enomoto (University of Osaka, Japan) and Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University, Japan)
