"Where obscurity is a virtue": The mystique of unintelligibility in Santería ritual

Language and Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 351-375

  Wirtz, Kristina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Metapragmatics; Religious language; Ritual speech; Santer a; Spirit possession; Unintelligibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944435175     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2005.03.008     Document Type: Article

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