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Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0010-39A2-B

Title: Article - Dialect, Trope, and Enregisterment in a Melanesian Speech Community

Description: This paper examines the enregisterment of dialect shibboleths among the Yopno of Papua New Guinea. The Yopno recognize dialect shibboleths as indexes of a speaker’s ‘‘home vil- lage,’’ yet people employ dialect shibboleths associated with others’ villages in systematic ways, offering little explicit metapragmatic commentary about such uses. Through the analysis of two interactional events, this paper demonstrates how the social meaning of using another’s dialect shibboleths is generated through figures of speech (i.e. tropes) that are manifest in the implicit metapragmatic structuring of discourse through parallelism. Though much work on enregisterment foregrounds the role of explicit metapragmatic dis- course in the process, this case highlights the important role played by tropes figured in the implicit metapragmatic structuring of discourse.

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Continent: Oceania

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Full Name: James Slotta

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