'You're so fat!'

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"'You're so fat!' was the greeting extended to the author's wife on her return to the Algonquin community of Pikogan in northwestern Quebec. The Anishnaabe elder was in fact complimenting her for looking robust and healthy.". "Non-Natives have much to learn in order to understand Native experience and culture. Spielmann sets out to show how one might use the techniques of conversation analysis and discourse analysis to accomplish this. Ultimately, he seeks to capture the essence of Native experience by exploring how Native people talk about that experience, an approach that is missing in existing books about Aboriginal people.". "'You're So Fat!' will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and others interested in exploring issues in conversation analysis, ethnography, and Native studies."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Anthropological linguistics,  Conversation analysis,  Discourse analysis,  Discourse analysis, Narrative,  Narrative Discourse analysis,  Ojibwa Indians,  Ojibwa language,  Ojibwa philosophy,  Social life and customs,  Storytelling,  Indian philosophy, north america,  Indians of north america, social life and customs,  Ojibwa (Langue),  Analyse de discours,  Analyse de la conversation,  Ethnolinguistique

Places: Canada,  Québec (Province)