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Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space Among the Maya

Paperback • 1990

Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space Among the Maya

By and faculty and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute.) Altman Neil (is a psychoanalytic psychologist Visiting Professor at Ambedkar University of Delhi India

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<i>Referential Practice</i> is an anthropological study of language use in a contemporary Maya community. It examines the routine conversational practices in which Maya speakers make reference to themselves and to each other, to their immediate contexts, and to their world. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Oxkutzcab, Yucatan, William F. Hanks develops a sociocultural approach to reference in natural languages. The core of this approach lies in treating speech as a social engagement and referenc...Show more

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9780226315461

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1990

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