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Publication details [#46514]

Oropeza-Escobar, Minerva. 2007. Discourse, authority and mediation in an ethnographic encounter in Eastern Mexico. Pragmatics 17 (3) : 439–460.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

authority | discourse | ethnography | mediation | ritual

Language as a subject

Mexicano

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper deals with discursive authority construction in ethnographic encounters, in casu in ritual practices among the Eastern Mexican Totonac population. It is shown that interactant roles' mediational character and the co-constructed text's transcendence with regard to the actual event play a pivotal role in discursive authority construction.