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Publication details [#23300]

Kulick, Don. 1992. Anger, gender, language shift and the politics of revelation in a Papua New Guinean village. Pragmatics 2 (3) : 281–296.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

An examination of how discourses of gender, affect and language are mutually reinforcing and sustained through specific linguistic practices in a Papua New Guinean village. These processes are shown to have a crucial role to play in language shift towards Tok Pisin.