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Arapaho imperatives: indirectness, politeness and communal "face"
Journal of Linguistic anthropology • 17 (1) • Published In 2007 • Pages: 44-60
By: Cowell, Andrew.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of Arapaho grammar and semantics focuses on the use of the indirect imperative, which the author shows helps to mediate between individual agency and social structure, and between authority and communalism in Arapaho society. The indirect imperative achieves this by referring/deferring to a third party.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social personality
- Language
- Etiquette
- Ethics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arapaho
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2022
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1955-2007
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cheyenne-Arapaho Statistical Area, Oklahoma, USA; Wind River Reservation; Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, USA
- NotesAdditional notes
- Andrew Cowell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arapaho Indians