Each social language has its own distinctive grammar. However, two different sorts of grammars are important to social languages, only one of which we ever think to study formally in school. One grammar is
a) the traditional set of units like nouns, verbs, inflections, phrase and clauses
A ……..is an image or pattern that we assemble “on the spot” as we communicate in a given context, based on our construal of that context and on our past experiences
(c)situated meaning
that is, the place, time, bodies and objects present during
a)material aspect
- for “real Indians,” any conversation they do have with a stranger who may turn out to be a “real Indian” will, in the discovery of the other’s “Indianness,” establish substantial obligations between the conversational partners just through the mutual acknowledgment that they are “Indians”
a)obligations