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Publication details [#1814]

Brukman, Jan. 1975. 'Tongue play': Constitutive and interpretive properties of sexual joking encounters among the Koya of South India. In Sanches, Mary and Ben G. Blount, eds. Sociocultural dimensions of language use. Academic Press. pp. 235–268.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
context dependence | joking | obscenity

Annotation

An attempt to formulate the contextual conditions on the speech act of 'tongue play' or joking among the Koya.