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Publication details [#26749]

Katriel, Tamar. 1993. Lefargen: A study in Israeli semantics of social relations. Research on Language and Social Interaction 26 (1) : 31–53.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
idiom | language and culture | meaning | semantics1 | social relationship | value
Language as a subject
Arabic | English, American | Hebrew | Samoan
Place, Publisher
Lawrence Erlbaum
ISBN
0835-1813
Journal WWW
www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This comparative study of the meaning and value attributed to cultural vocabularies of supportive talk successively examines Israeli 'lefargen and firgun', Arabic 'mujamala' and American 'communication' as cultural idioms and Samoan 'maloo' exchange as verbal ritual.