Alex Pillen, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She explores language in war-torn societies from a cultural perspective and is the author of A Space That Will Never Be Filled (2017).

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of TranscriptsNote on the Kurdish Alphabet (Kurmanji)1 Waking Up—Alone1 Introduction2 Speaking Kurdish3 A Living Dictionary4 Approach5 Chapter Outline2 Reality’s Linguistic Shape—Evidential Texture1 Introduction2 The Face of Cruelty3 Evidential Finesse4 A Mood Too5 The Confirmation of Reality3 Precision and Autonymy—Direct Quotation1 Introduction2 Quotation3 Rhythmic Flow4 Subtle Patterns5 Autonymy6 On Exactitude4 Like I Say—Often1 Introduction2 Words That Only Go Half-Way3 Like I Say4 Solidity5 Lived Uniqueness5 A Space Of One’s Own In Language—The Reflexive Pronoun1 Introduction2 What Belongs to Oneself3 A Sense of Self, Respect and the Divine4 A Space of One’s Own6 A Pronoun’s Shadow—Being Genuine Without Name1 Introduction2 Segmentary Resonance3 Xwe’s Shadow4 The Ban on X and W7 Acoustic Ambiguity—The Intonation Of Painful Injustice1 Introduction2 Mournful Tones3 An Invitation to Listen4 Tonal Intertextuality5 Coda8 The Endurance Of Second-Hand Reality—Conclusion1 Introduction2 Enduring Keynotes3 Second-Hand4 SingularityBibliographyIndex