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Publication details [#13931]

Senft, Gunter. 1995. Notes from the Field: Ain't Misbehavin'? Trobriand Pragmatics and the Field Researcher's Opportunity to Put His (or Her) Foot in It. Oceanic Linguistics 34 : 211–226.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | field methods

Language as a subject

English | Languages, New Guinea

Place, Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

ISBN

0029-8115

Journal WWW

muse.jhu.edu/journals/ol/

Annotation

Doing field research in the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea), the author classified experiences of his 'inappropriate' communication and discussed their relevance for Trobriand pragmatics, especially with respect to the cognitive processing of Trobriand communicative strategies.