Semantic Systems, Discourse Structure, and the Ecology of Language. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 17

Semantic Systems, Discourse Structure, and the Ecology of Language. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 17 [electronic resource] / Joel Sherzer.

This analysis seeks to link discourse structure and semantic or lexical systems. The example is given of a Cuna curing chant named "the way of the pepper," in which 53 names for pepper ("kapur") are used in a projection of a paradigmatic axis (the lexical taxonomy) onto a syntagm...

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Main Author: Sherzer, Joel
Corporate Author: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1974.
Subjects:
American Indian Languages.
Anthropology.
Discourse Analysis.
Ethnography.
Language Research.
Language Styles.
Language Usage.
Lexicology.
Semantics.
Sociolinguistics.
Speech Communication.
Structural Analysis.
Verbal Communication.

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