Poetics of Living

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Aspects of Multimodal and Multisensorial Semiosis

Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University, Japan), Makiko Takekuro, Takeshi Enomoto

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
19 March 2026

Sociolinguistics; Semantics

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology

This book provides empirical and theoretical accounts of poetics from a sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological perspective, highlighting the poesis of everyday living.

The authors not only regard poetry as a literary genre or a form of aesthetic performance, but also aim to clarify how everyday practices, such as casual conversation, radio broadcasting, sightseeing tours, classroom instruction, and reciprocal singing, are imbued with poetic (inter)actions achieved through senses, bodies, materials, and the environment. Such mediums are shown to be appropriated here and now in accordance with the ongoing social actions gleaned from the contributors’ fields of research and expertise. Examples include classroom instruction and local festivals in Japan, music contests in China, rock climbing and public demonstrations in the USA, radio/TV broadcasts in Hawai’i and the USA, and tourist guidance in New Zealand, among others.

Building on major poetic theories in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and pragmatics, such as ethnopoetics, ritual poetics, and dialogic resonance, this book offers a showcase of highly interdisciplinary, cutting-edge approaches to poetic analysis that range from micro-interactional exchanges to macro-sociocultural issues surrounding poetic ‘texts’. With such a diversity of activity, language, and approach, the authors cultivate novel ways in which multiple senses and modalities contribute to various forms of poesis, as well as to often-consequential social relations associated with the practices. The findings present students and researchers of language with an opportunity to re-evaluate the width and depth of poetic practice, as well as clues to enhance analytic sophistication through the multi/crossmodal engagement with dynamic poesis that seeps into everyday life.

Edited by: Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University Japan), Makiko Takekuro, Takeshi Enomoto
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781350441545
ISBN 10: 1350441546
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 March 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kuniyoshi Kataoka is Professor of English Linguistics at Aichi University, Japan. He has edited several books and published numerous refereed papers in major sociolinguistic journals. Makiko Takekuro is Professor in the School of Law at Waseda University, Japan. Takeshi Enomoto is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities at Osaka University, Japan.

Reviews for Poetics of Living: Aspects of Multimodal and Multisensorial Semiosis

Poetics of Living breathes new life into both ethnopoetics and the poetics of interaction and, ultimately, creates something intellectually rather exciting. Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Makiko Takekuro and Takeshi Enomoto have put together a book worth reading. The chapters are uniformly stimulating, and the opening and closing essays field redefining. * Anthony K. Webster, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, USA *