Publications

Publication details [#3449]

Frake, Charles O. 1972. Struck by speech: The Yakan concept of litigation. In Gumperz, John J. and Dell H. Hymes, eds. Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. 106–129.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation

Language as a subject

Yakan

Annotation

F. illustrates how a definition of the concept of litigation guides a description of the Yakan legal system, enables us to relate litigation with other activities in Yakan society, and points the way toward meaningful comparisons with legal systems of other cultures.

Reprints

Frake, Charles O. 1980. In Frake, Charles O., ed. Language and cultural description. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 175–201.