Publications

Publication details [#8825]

Sherzer, Joel. 1979. Strategies in text and context: Kuna 'Kaa kwento'. Journal of American Folklore 92 : 145–163.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | discourse strategy | narrative

Language as a subject

Cuna

Annotation

On the interplay between the significance of 'kaa kwento' ('the story of the hot pepper') and the contexts in which it is performed among the Kuna Indians of Panama.

Reprints

Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer. 1984. In Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer, eds. Language in use: Readings in sociolinguistics. Prentice-Hall. pp. 183–197.