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Talking about doing: lexicon and event1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Michael Agara
Michael Agara
Affiliation:
Narcotic Addiction Control Commission, New York City
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Abstract

Sociolinguists have not much attended to participants' terminology for events. For this, the usual ethnosemantic focus on relationships of inclusion within a taxonomic structure is insufficient. Stage-process relationships and case-grammar notions of agent, object, instrument and result are used to account for the conceptual structure encoded in a set of addict's argot terms. It is suggested that the addict's argot functions as a needed, standardized terminology, not just for concealment. (Ethnosemantics, cognitive anthropology, case grammar, generative semantics, argots.)

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Articles: Sources of structure in ethnographic semantics
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Language in Society , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1974, pp. 83 - 89
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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