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Crocker, J. Christopher. 1977. The social functions of rhetorical forms. In Sapir, J. David and J. Christopher Crocker, eds. The social use of metaphor: Essays on the anthropology of rhetoric. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 33–73.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnology | figure of speech | metaphor | social anthropology

Annotation

C. considers the social uses of metaphor and other tropes to provide a theoretical background for ethnological inquiry into social rhetoric, and to demonstrate the rewards of such research in terms of some basic issues in social anthropology.