Publications

Publication details [#3450]

Frake, Charles O. 1975. How to enter a Yakan house. In Sanches, Mary and Ben G. Blount, eds. Sociocultural dimensions of language use. Academic Press. pp. 25–40.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

etiquette | formulaic expression | speech act sequence

Language as a subject

Yakan

Annotation

Analysis of the etiquette (including routinized speech act sequences) surrounding the activity of entering a house among the Yakan (Philippine Moslems inhabiting the island of Basilan).

Reprints

Frake, Charles O. 1980. In Frake, Charles O., ed. Language and cultural description. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 214–232.