| Description |
xxi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Language, thought, and culture |
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Language, thought, and culture.
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| Contents |
Construction of social reality: Introduction / Ben G. Blount -- Semantics and causality in the study of deviance / Henry A. Selby -- How to enter a Yakan house / Charles O. Frake -- Cognition and events / Michael Agar --Everyone has to lie / Harvey Sacks -- The conversational analysis of meaning: a study of classroom interaction / John J. Gumperz, Eleanor Herasimchuk -- Agreeing to agree on genealogy: a Luo sociology of knowledge / Ben G. Blount -- The child as practical reasoner / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- Metacommunicative acts and events: Introduction / Mary Sanches -- It's all uphill: the creative metaphores of Ilongot magical spells / Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo -- The language of ritual events amont the GA of Southern Ghana / Dale K. Fitzgerald -- "Tongue play": constitutive and interpretive properties of sexual joking encounters among the Koya of South India / Jan Brukman -- Falling words: an analysis of a Japanese Rakugo performance / Mary Sanches -- Children's insults: America and Samoa / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Keith T. Kernan -- Linguistic creativity in song / Brian Stross -- An ethnoscience veiw of schizophrenic speech / Oswald Werner, Gladys Levis-Matichek, with Martha Evens and Bonnie Litowitz |
| Summary |
Presents detailed articles that shed light upon the ritual and social elements of verbal behavior |
| Analysis |
Anthropological linguistics |
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Sociolinguistics |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Anthropological linguistics.
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Language and culture.
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Sociolinguistics.
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| Author |
Blount, Ben G., 1940-
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Sanches, Mary.
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| LC no. |
74017974 |
| ISBN |
012617850X |
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