"they live in Lonesome Dove": Media and contemporary Western Apache place-naming practices

Language in Society

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-215

  Nevins, M Eleanor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse and place; Genre; Intertextuality; Joking; Mass media; Narrative; Native American; Place names; Verbal play; Western Apache

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749095338     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404508080263     Document Type: Article

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