Publications

Publication details [#49169]

Nevins, M. Eleanor. 2008. “They live in Lonesome Dove”: Media and contemporary Western Apache place-naming practices. Language in Society 37 (2) : 191–215.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

genre | humor | mass media | place deixis

Language as a subject

Apache | English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how residents of the White Mountain Apache reservation use English-language mass media discourse to give names to newly constructed neighborhoods on the reservation, normally with a humorous effect.