... rancho is part of themunicipio (township) of Tingüindín; the town of Tingüindín has about 5,000 inhabitants out of the total of 10,000 for the entire township. The rancho, a hamlet of about 400 ... three culturally salient "ways of speaking& quot; (Hymes, 1974b); here I briefly presenttwo of these ways of speaking, respeto and relajo, which are often positioned in opposition toeach ... that this depth and quality of participant-observation is key to understanding the discourse, or ways of speaking I discuss here,since they occur in the interstices of everyday life, which I have...