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Publication details [#3301]
Firth, John Rupert. 1957. Ethnographic analysis and language with reference to Malinowski's views. In Firth, R.W., ed. Man and culture: An evaluation of the work of Bronislaw Malinowski. Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 93–118.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Annotation
A survey of B. Malinowski's contribution to linguistics from the point of view of ethnographic analysis. The focus is on his general theory of speech functions in contexts of situation in approaching the problem of meaning in exotic languages.