Author Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, USA.
關鍵詞
debate; demeanor; indexicality; argument; Tibetan; social interaction
摘要
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.
目次
Denotational Textuality and Demeanor Indexicality 172 Tibetan Buddhist Debate in India 173 Textual Ideology and Role Differentiation in the Debate Genre 174 An Evening of Debate at Sera Mey 176 The Seat of Knowledgeability 177 Consensus and Wholeness 178 Emergent Forms of Demeanor 180 Unsettling the Defendant: Shifts in Indexical Anchoring 181 Taunts 183 Spatial Implosion 184 The Defendant's Demeanor of Immovability 184 Discussion 187 Notes 188 References Cited 190
