The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network / / Elías Domínguez Barajas.
Grounded primarily in the ethnography of communication and aligned with the multidisciplinarity of discourse analysis, the book examines the use of proverbs in the daily life of a social network of Mexican-origin transnational families in Chicago and Michoacán, Mexico. Various and detailed analyses...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ,
98 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The López social network and its proverbs
- Chapter 3 Proverbs mean more than they say
- Chapter 4 Proverbs do more than they mean
- Chapter 5 Toward praxis: Linking the saying with the thinking
- Chapter 6 The academic stakes of language use
- Chapter 7 Beyond school halls
- Backmatter