Discourse in the Longue Durée

A View of Mayan Poetic Inertia

Bibliographic Data

ID2286238
AuthorsDanny Law (0000-0001-9406-7377, Department of Linguistics University of Texas at Austin), Kristen Hull (0000-0003-1002-9344, Department of Religion Brigham Young University), Kerry Hull (0000-0003-1459-5992)
Year2019
Volume29
Issue2
Pages195-204
Publication date2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jola.12220
OpenAlexW2969758597
LanguageFR
Citations received1
References cited12

Discourse is dynamic and emergent, yet certain elements of discourse can appear remarkably stable, enduring across centuries. This discursive inertia gives us evidence of discourse in the past, allowing us to put current discursive moments in a longue durée context. Discursive inertia also begs avenues of investigation in its own right. We here discuss the common poetic patterns of chiasmus and difrasismo on one branch of the Mayan language family, consisting of Classic Mayan, documented in hieroglyphic inscriptions, Colonial Ch'olti', and contemporary Ch'orti' Mayan. Texts from these languages share poetic discourse that speak to the long perseverance of discursive patterns

Cultural and political discourse analysis · Literary and Cultural Studies · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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