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Download full textUrban, Greg – 1982
Two speech styles, origin-myth telling and ritual wailing, found among the Shokleng Indians of south Brazil are analyzed from the perspective of two specific functions of speech style: (1) for indexing or highlighting the subject matter in certain contexts, and (2) for relating the contexts and subject matters to other contexts and subject matters…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language
