ABSTRACT
The co-occurrence of iconic and indexical links that are relatively coordinated across several media and organizational features in a ritual event can produce a certain communicative resonance, which is most salient when there are multiple links and approximate parallels. The extent of communicative resonance in ritual events varies within and across cultural-historical settings, as do events with which resonances are established. Communicative resonance identifies moments of relative coordination among a number of features, forms, and media that create links between events. To generalize about ritual communication, then, it is more productive to consider formal-functional relations across the range of communicative media or in particular kinds of ritual events and to examine their pragmatic processes, patterns of coordination, and communicative resonances. A different phase of marriage arrangement shows parallels to oratory in Okiek men's political-legal meetings, and communicative patterns specific to marriage meetings characterize other extracts.
