Publications
Publication details [#3420]
Foster, Michael K. 1974. When words become deeds: An analysis of three Iroquois Longhouse speech events. In Bauman, Richard and Joel Sherzer, eds. Explorations in the ethnography of speaking. Cambridge University Press. pp. 354–367.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A native theory of speech acts is revealed in the course of scrutinizing the Iroquois speech events of thanking and beseeching.