ABSTRACT
The study of language, as employed in practical speech contexts, meshes with approaches in practice theory generally in anthropology. “Practice theory” is well exemplified in general by the complex work of Pierre Bourdieu. Language pragmatics, as a special component of practice theory in general, investigates how language forms are used, for example, in the sphere of pronouns and possessives as explained in the early and ongoing work by Stephen Levinson and his collaborators. Bourdieu attempts to introduce another point, that this kind of system involves that the participants “misrecognize” the true conditions under which they produce their actions. Popokl and noman are closely linked topics that tie together body, mind, emotions, thought, action, and causation, in configurations of practice that are dynamically seen as embodied. The concept of the noman is important in all spheres of social life. Good behavior and bad behavior are both referred to the state of the noman. Pleasure and joy also belong to the noman.
