THE WHISTLE IS NOT A DECORATION: ADMONISHMENT IN INTERTRIBAL DISCOURSE

Guillermo Bartelt

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Restraint and indirectness in the macro-speech act of admonishment, in the context of American Indian intertribal gatherings called powwows, are assessed as to their strategies of inclusiveness, dissociation, and reaffirmation of conservative social structures.

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American Indian English rhetoric, pragmatics, macro-speech act

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejals.v4i1.285

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