1st Edition

The Life of Voices Bodies, Subjects and Dialogue

By B. Hannah Rockwell Copyright 2011
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialogue with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the relation between bodies and speech expression to develop a unique theory of communication and bodies.... Read more

Preface  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Chapter I: Living Language  Chapter II: Dialogue, Organic Bodies and Consciousness  Chapter III: Communicating Bodies: Worldliness, Values, Ideology and Dialogue  Chapter IV: Bodies as Memory Sites  Chapter V: Organic Bodies and Symbolic Lives  Chapter VI: Speaking Subjects as Limbs of Social Bodies  Chapter VII: Embodied Feeling and Collective Values  Chapter VIII: Shared Humanity and the Power of Dialogue  Appendix i: Methods

Biography

B. Hannah Rockwell is Associate Dean for the School of Communication at Loyola University, Chicago. Her published work has appeared in Women and Language, Body & Society, the International Journal of the Humanities and Advances in Discourse Processes. Rockwell employs philosophy of language to interpret a wide range of discourse practices as performances of human expression.