OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1063330

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Title:		Article - Dialect, Trope, and Enregisterment in a Melanesian Speech Community
		yupna_0060
		Documenting Yupna Diversity: Linguistic, Sociolinguistic & Sociocultural Perspectives on Variation in a Papuan Language Family
Contributor (author):		James Slotta
Description:		This paper examines the enregisterment of dialect shibboleths among the Yopno of Papua New Guinea. The Yopno recognize dialect shibboleths as indexes of a speaker’s ‘‘home vil- lage,’’ yet people employ dialect shibboleths associated with others’ villages in systematic ways, offering little explicit metapragmatic commentary about such uses. Through the analysis of two interactional events, this paper demonstrates how the social meaning of using another’s dialect shibboleths is generated through figures of speech (i.e. tropes) that are manifest in the implicit metapragmatic structuring of discourse through parallelism. Though much work on enregisterment foregrounds the role of explicit metapragmatic dis- course in the process, this case highlights the important role played by tropes figured in the implicit metapragmatic structuring of discourse.
		An article that appeared in Language and Communication in 2012
Format:		application/pdf
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1063330
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1063330%23
Publisher:		James Slotta
		University of Texas
Subject:		Secondary document
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Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1063330
DateStamp:		2017-05-15
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Citation:		James Slotta. n.d. James Slotta.