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019 _a(OCoLC)979745010
020 _a9783110224887
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020 _a9783110224894
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024 7 _a10.1515/9783110224894
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783110224894
035 _a(DE-B1597)38186
035 _a(OCoLC)639016121
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aLAN009000
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082 0 4 _a401/.41
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDomínguez Barajas, Elías
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network /
_cElías Domínguez Barajas.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter Mouton,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (189 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aContributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ,
_x1861-0676 ;
_v98
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tChapter 1 Introduction --
_tChapter 2 The López social network and its proverbs --
_tChapter 3 Proverbs mean more than they say --
_tChapter 4 Proverbs do more than they mean --
_tChapter 5 Toward praxis: Linking the saying with the thinking --
_tChapter 6 The academic stakes of language use --
_tChapter 7 Beyond school halls --
_tBackmatter
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aGrounded primarily in the ethnography of communication and aligned with the multidisciplinarity of discourse analysis, the book examines the use of proverbs in the daily life of a social network of Mexican-origin transnational families in Chicago and Michoacán, Mexico. Various and detailed analyses of actual proverb use reveal that proverbs in this particular population function as a highly contextualized communicative strategy that serves four discrete social functions: to argue, to advise, to establish rapport, and to entertain. Proposing that the social and cognitive aspects of language use must be combined for a complete understanding of how such genres of language are actually used by regular people in daily life, the author shows how ordinary people use sophisticated cognitive processes to interpret the socially-relevant meanings of proverbs in everyday conversation. The book provides an unusual mix of contextualized discourse analysis that is ethnographic, linguistic, and cognitive, yielding much needed insight into a segment of the Mexican-origin population of the Midwestern U.S., a population whose increasing importance and size is often mentioned, but about which precious few linguistic studies have been conducted. The volume not only helps to fill this void but it is also one of the few studies that focuses on the impact of transnationalism on linguistic practices, regardless of cultural group. Departing from the conventional approach of ignoring the role of everyday-language use in order to focus exclusively on culture, economics, or migrant patterns, the book makes linguistic practice the central issue, and thus affirms that it is language that weaves together the two distant sites of transnational communities, providing a fertile area for understanding the perspectives of the transmigrants themselves.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
650 0 _aDiscourse analysis.
650 0 _aProverbs
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aDiskursanalyse.
650 4 _aRhetorik.
650 4 _aSoziolinguistik.
650 4 _aSprachsoziologie.
650 7 _aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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653 _aDiscourse Analysis.
653 _aRhetorics.
653 _aSocial Cognition.
653 _aSociolinguistics.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224894
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110224894
856 4 2 _3Cover
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