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Peer reviewedPressman, Jon F. – Language in Society, 1998
Analyzes the use of metapragmatic description in the ethnoclassification of language by native speakers on the Franco-Antillean island of Saint Barthelemy. A prevalent technique for metapragmatic description based on honorific pronouns that reflects the varied geolinguistic and generational attributes of the speakers is described. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Creoles, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Classification
Sherzer, Joel – 1976
This study attempts to provide a systematic mapping of the linguistic structural properties of North American Indian languages. The study includes: (1) the history of areal-typological linguistic studies in North America; (2) a framework for the presentation of areal linguistic phenomena in North America; (3) a presentation and discussion of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Area Studies
