Reconstructing Kinship or the pragmatics of kin talk
This article argues that kinship terminologies are best studied in their full linguistic context; the data should be collected from naturally occurring conversation rather than elicited with frames, and recognition must be given to the fact that people choose which expressions to use. Other means ar...
Main Author: | Zeitlyn, D |
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Format: | Journal article |
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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain
1993
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