Indirection in the Negotiation of Self in Everyday Tojolab'al Women's Conversation
- 28 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
- Vol. 1 (1) , 78-96
- https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1991.1.1.78
Abstract
In the speech genre of beta = Io7il 'joking speech' Tojolab'al women use the ambiguity of indirect speech to negotiate their relationship to social norms and cultural values in the midst of everyday conversation. Indirection and ambiguity involve the intersection of form, function, and meaning in lexical, grammatical, and conversational structure. Ambiguity permits criticism and conflict in the context of cooperation and social solidarity.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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