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Thoughts on communicative competence in a Serbian village
Selected papers on a Serbian village : social structure as reflected by history, demography and oral tradition • Amherst, Mass. • Published In 1977 • Pages: 125-140
By: Halpern, Barbara.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Based on Halpern's intermittent field work in Yugoslavia over the period of 1953-1971, this paper deals with various sociolinguistic features of Serbian village life, particularly in reference to the manner in which '…people intuitively respond verbally to the range of social situations in which they find themselves in the course of living out lives' (p. 125). After a brief discussion on linguistic theory and communicative competence, the author describes the socio-cultural setting of her study and then proceeds with a discussion of various aspects of village speech patterns. These patterns involve the use of speech as an integrating device, as a means of expressing emotions, and in restrictive and non-restrictive contexts under certain social situations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Sociocultural trends
- Language
- Sociolinguistics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Serbs
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1953-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sumadija region, central Serbia and Montenegro
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Barbara Kerewsky Halpern
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-140)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf80001606
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Serbs