Publications

Publication details [#8034]

Roberts, John M. and Michael L. Forman. 1972. Riddles: Expressive models of interrogation. Ethnology 10 : 509–533.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | involvement | riddle

Annotation

An attempt to account for the uneven distribution of the genre of riddles in time and space, both in culture-historical and in functional terms, for differential involvement and cognitive control of the patterns of the genre, and for the structure and meaning of the patterns themselves.

Reprints

Gumperz, John J. and Dell H. Hymes. 1972. In Gumperz, John J. and Dell H. Hymes, eds. Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. 180–209.