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Publication details [#34310]

Bunte, Pamela and Robert Franklin. 1992. You Can't Get There from Here: Souther Paiute Testimony as Intercultural Communication. Anthropological Linguistics 34 (1-4) : 19–44.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom | intercultural communication

Language as a subject

Hopi | Navajo

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper explores deposition and trial testimony in order to understand the cultural, linguistic, and communicative style dimensions of the problems that arose during a land claims case involving the San Juan Paiute, the Hopi, and the Navajo Tribe.