Publications

Publication details [#3216]

Fernandez, James W. 1967. Revitalized words from 'the parrot's egg' and 'the bull that crashes in the kraal': African cult sermons. In Helm, June, ed. Essays on the verbal and visual arts: Proceedings of the 1966 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Washington UP. pp. 45–63.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | expressive function | functions of language | reference | verbal art

Annotation

An examination of contextual and metalinguistic settings for sermons, followed by a discussion of their referential, poetic and expressive functions.