Publications

Publication details [#32175]

Flores Farfán, José Antonio. 2003. “Al fin que ya los cueros no van a correr”: Pragmatics of power in Hñahñu (Otomi) markets. Language in Society 32 (5) : 629–658.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | crosscultural communication | marketplace conversation | power | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Hñähñú

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article analyzes the specific pragmatics of interpersonal cross-cultural conflict in an example of market interaction between Spanish-speaking middlemen Mestizos and Hñahñu occasional sellers in the market of Ixmiquilpan (Mexico).