What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk

ISBN-13: 9780226816654 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication date: 05/20/2022 Edition description: First Edition Pages: 352 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language. Proust, in other words, is interested in what linguistic anthropologists call language-in-use. Michael Lucey elucidates Proust's approach to language-in-use in a number of ways: principally in relation to linguistic anthropology, but also in relation to speech act theory, and to Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. The book also includes an interlude after each of its