Mexico: Battered Spanish, Eloquent Mixe: Form And Function Of Mixe Difrasismos

Mexico: Battered Spanish, Eloquent Mixe: Form And Function Of Mixe Difrasismos Daniel F. Suslak, 2010   One of the marks of a skillful speaker of Totontepecano Mixe is the ability to employ parallel couplets such as tù?k ?aaj tù?k joot ‘one mouth, one belly’ in a variety of discursive genres, ranging from prayer and political oratory to joking and storytelling. Comparable poetic forms, which Mesoamericanists refer to as difrasismos, are found in indigenous oral traditions across Mexico and...

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