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...

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Autor principal: Zeitlyn, D
Format: Journal article
Publicat: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain 1993
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