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Publication details [#20189]

Eastman, Carol M. 1986. Haida: Exemplar of a pragmatic communicative mode. In Tracy, Karen, ed. Understanding face-to-face interaction: Issues linking goals and discourse. Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 329–345.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

mode of communication

Language as a subject

Haida

Person as a subject

Givón, T.

Annotation

E. discusses a number of features of Haida (Northwest Coast of North America, Charlotte Islands, Southeast Alaska), revealing the language as exemplifying T. Givons category of `pragmatic' (vs. `syntactic') mode languages.