Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space Among the Maya

by William F. Hanks

Book Overview

Referential Practice is an anthropological study of language use in a contemporary Maya community. It examines the routine conversational practices in which Maya speakers make reference to themselves and to each other, to their immediate contexts, and to their world. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Oxkutzcab, Yucat n, William F. Hanks develops a sociocultural approach to reference in natural languages. The core of this approach lies in treating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226315460
• ISBN13: 9780226315461
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 606 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"