Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space Among the Maya

by William F. Hanks

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Referential Practice 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, Yucat n, William F. Hanks develops a sociocultural approach to reference in natural languages. The core of this approach lies in treating...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226315460

ISBN13:9780226315461

Release Date:November 1990

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:606 Pages

Weight:1.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"

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