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Denotational Textuality and Demeanor Indexicality in Tibetan Buddhist Debate
Author(s) -
Lempert Michael P.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1525/jlin.2005.15.2.171
Subject(s) - indexicality , textuality , ideology , sociology , argumentation theory , buddhism , epistemology , aesthetics , linguistics , philosophy , law , political science , theology , politics
This article examines the place of demeanor indexicality in Tibetan Buddhist debate, a genre of argumentation practiced daily by monks of the Geluk sect in India. In debate, monks display forms of demeanor that parallel the operations they concurrently perform on the denotational content of their discourse. It is through the reciprocally reflexive relationship between demeanor indexicality and denotational textuality that debate is shown to achieve its core ideological effects.