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Publication details [#5075]

Irvine, Judith T. 1974. Strategies of status manipulation in the Wolof greeting. In Bauman, Richard and Joel Sherzer, eds. Explorations in the ethnography of speaking. Cambridge University Press. pp. 167–191.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational strategy | greeting | social status

Language as a subject

Wolof

Annotation

I. presents a detailed examination of the interactional principle of inequality at work in a Wolof linguistic routine, the greeting. Various status strategies (self-lowering, self-elevating, style-switching) are identified.