The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network

The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social NetworkGrounded 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 Michoacn, 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

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Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War

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In Part I the creative temperament is defined in terms of a subtly recognizable rhythm of human nature which appears in varying forms or "syncopations

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