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Social spaces among the Wolof

Of public places and compounds

Christian Meyer

pp. 131-168

Abstract

As we have seen in chapter III, "conversation" has been defined by conversation analysis as only one of many possible speech exchange systems. However, it has also been accorded a primordial status among them: As basic form of human communication it is viewed as the standard genre in both individual language socialization and phylogenetic language evolution as well as in everyday life.

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Meyer Christian (2018) Culture, practice, and the body: conversational organization and embodied culture in North-Western Senegal. Stuttgart, Metzler.

Pages: 131-168

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-04606-2_5

Full citation:

Meyer Christian (2018) Social spaces among the Wolof: Of public places and compounds, In: Culture, practice, and the body, Stuttgart, Metzler, 131–168.