Ethnopoetics as functional reconstruction: Dell Hymes' narrative view of the world

Functions of Language

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-275

  Blommaert, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33845323926     PISSN: 0929998X     EISSN: 15699765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/fol.13.2.09blo     Document Type: Review

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