LEADER 04440nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910807768503321 005 20240506085454.0 010 $a1-282-71642-5 010 $a9786612716423 010 $a3-11-022489-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110224894 035 $a(CKB)2670000000018703 035 $a(EBL)516534 035 $a(OCoLC)630538799 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000397686 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11258466 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000397686 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10356103 035 $a(PQKB)11000477 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC516534 035 $a(DE-B1597)38186 035 $a(OCoLC)639016121 035 $a(OCoLC)979745010 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110224894 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL516534 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10381193 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL271642 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000018703 100 $a20100120d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe function of proverbs in discourse $ethe case of a Mexican transnational social network /$fby Eli?as Domi?nguez Barajas 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York, NY $cMouton de Gruyter$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (197 p.) 225 1 $aContributions to the sociology of language ;$v98 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-022488-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tChapter 1 Introduction -- $tChapter 2 The López social network and its proverbs -- $tChapter 3 Proverbs mean more than they say -- $tChapter 4 Proverbs do more than they mean -- $tChapter 5 Toward praxis: Linking the saying with the thinking -- $tChapter 6 The academic stakes of language use -- $tChapter 7 Beyond school halls -- $t Backmatter 330 $aGrounded primarily in the ethnography of communication and aligned with the multidisciplinarity of discourse analysis, the book examines the use of proverbs in the daily life of a social network of Mexican-origin transnational families in Chicago and Michoacán, Mexico. Various and detailed analyses of actual proverb use reveal that proverbs in this particular population function as a highly contextualized communicative strategy that serves four discrete social functions: to argue, to advise, to establish rapport, and to entertain. Proposing that the social and cognitive aspects of language use must be combined for a complete understanding of how such genres of language are actually used by regular people in daily life, the author shows how ordinary people use sophisticated cognitive processes to interpret the socially-relevant meanings of proverbs in everyday conversation. The book provides an unusual mix of contextualized discourse analysis that is ethnographic, linguistic, and cognitive, yielding much needed insight into a segment of the Mexican-origin population of the Midwestern U.S., a population whose increasing importance and size is often mentioned, but about which precious few linguistic studies have been conducted. The volume not only helps to fill this void but it is also one of the few studies that focuses on the impact of transnationalism on linguistic practices, regardless of cultural group. Departing from the conventional approach of ignoring the role of everyday-language use in order to focus exclusively on culture, economics, or migrant patterns, the book makes linguistic practice the central issue, and thus affirms that it is language that weaves together the two distant sites of transnational communities, providing a fertile area for understanding the perspectives of the transmigrants themselves. 410 0$aContributions to the sociology of language ;$v98. 606 $aProverbs$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDiscourse analysis 610 $aDiscourse Analysis. 610 $aRhetorics. 610 $aSocial Cognition. 610 $aSociolinguistics. 615 0$aProverbs$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDiscourse analysis. 676 $a401/.41 686 $a400$2sdnb 686 $aIM 7075$2rvk 700 $aDomi?nguez Barajas$b Eli?as$f1968-$01660303 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807768503321 996 $aThe function of proverbs in discourse$94015414 997 $aUNINA