Jennifer Green
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jennifer Green plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1874-6829
Title
Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’
Edited by Lesley Stirling, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 26:2 (2016) v, 308 pp.
Subjects Narrative Studies
2019 Embodying kin-based respect in speech, sign, and gesture Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 370–395 | Article
In Australian Indigenous societies the means for demonstrating kinship-based respect are rich and varied, and mastery of their ideological and contextual dimensions is highly valued and an indication of communicative expertise. Special speech registers, sometimes referred to as ‘mother-in-law’,… read more
2018 Pointing to the body: Kin signs in Australian Indigenous sign languages Gesture 17:1, pp. 1–36 | Article
Kinship plays a central role in organizing interaction and other social behaviors in Indigenous Australia. The spoken lexicon of kinship has been the target of extensive consideration by anthropologists and linguists alike. Less well explored, however, are the kin categories expressed through… read more
2016 Multimodal complexity in sand story narratives Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’, Stirling, Lesley, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas (eds.), pp. 312–339 | Article
In sand stories, an Indigenous narrative practice from Central Australia, semi-conventionalized graphic symbols drawn on the ground are interwoven with speech, sign and gesture. This article examines some aspects of the complexity seen in this dynamic graphic tradition, illustrating the ways that… read more
2016 Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’: Common ground and what makes a story Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’, Stirling, Lesley, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas (eds.), pp. 173–192 | Article
When the Australian writer Richard Flanagan accepted the 2014 Man Booker Prize for fiction, he said that “As a species it is story that distinguishes us”. While the prize was given for a literary work written in English, Australia and the surrounding regions are replete with a rich diversity of… read more
2014 Signs and space in Arandic sand narratives From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), pp. 219–243 | Article
In everyday interactions multiple semiotic resources work together to form loosely coordinated partnerships or “ensembles” (Kendon 2004a, 2008). People sketch on shared spaces, gesture and diagram objects in the air, and point to real and fictive locations. In some communities sign languages are… read more