Negotiating Tradition - The pragmatics of international deliberations on Cultural Property

Front matter

. SALVADOR z The Pragmatics of

aaa - International Deliberations

on Cultural Property

Introduction

International Negotiations on Cultural Property and Language 1 The Debate on Cultural Property 8

Approach and Aims of this Study 10

On Terminology: Why Language Matters Linguistic Anthropology 16

The Ethnography of Communication 18 Pragmatics & Metapragmatics 21

Negotiating Tradition on the Global Stage February 2008 25

WIPO’ Committee on Traditional Knowledge 31 Actors and Alliances 41

The Multiplicity of Communicative Events 49

The Pragmatics of Negotiating Cultural Property

The IGC as a Speech Community 56

Opening Statements 59

Language Politics in International Negotiations 68 Opening Statements as Framing Devices 75 Referential Frames of the IGC 107 Micro-Editing 136

Multiperspectivity & Differentiation Stigma 150

Potential 157

Right 160

Unity 161

Justice 164