: Elías Domínguez Barajas
: The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110224894
: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 168.70
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 197
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The book examines how thinking, speaking, and interacting influence the construction of meaning among interlocutors. Its revelatory analysis of the complex use of proverbs as discursive tools in the daily life of a social network of transnational families based in Chicago and Mexico makes it an important contribution to the fields of discourse studies, rhetoric, literacy theory, and pedagogy.


Elías Domínguez Barajas, Texas A&M University, USA.
Contents7
Chapter 1 Introduction9
Chapter 2 The López social network and its proverbs31
Chapter 3 Proverbs mean more than they say47
Chapter 4 Proverbs do more than they mean73
Chapter 5 Toward praxis: Linking the saying with the thinking115
Chapter 6 The academic stakes of language use137
Chapter 7 Beyond school halls155
Epilogue173
References179
Index193