Publications
Publication details [#66434]
Spier, Troy E. 2019. Reading into Riding Culture: Messages and Sayings on Daladala Vehicles in Usa River, Tanzania. Journal of Asian and African Studies 54 (3) : 376–389.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
comment | discourse analysis | everyday conversation | message1 | metalanguage | sign | taxonomy | topic
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Annotation
This inquiry qualitatively distinguishes 140 unique tokens—gathered over a period of three weeks—listed on the typically brightly colored daladala vehicles in Usa River, Tanzania and tries to supply a taxonomy of wider discursive categories that delineate these messages and sayings, which are believed to propose a metalinguistic commentary on relevant, salient topics of everyday conversations.