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Publication details [#1735]
Bricker, Victoria R. 1974. The ethnographic context of some traditional Mayan speech genres. In Bauman, Richard and Joel Sherzer, eds. Explorations in the ethnography of speaking. Cambridge University Press. pp. 368–388.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Using data from Zinacantan in highland Chiapas and from communities in the Yucatan peninsula, the structure and function of Mayan couplet speech is investigated.