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Practices of truth [electronic resource] : an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts / Baudouin Dupret.

By: Series: Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 214.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 173 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9789027284655 (electronic bk.)
  • 9027284652 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Practices of truth.DDC classification:
  • 306.440917/5927 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1428.A73 D87 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.

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