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Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse
- Title
- Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse / edited by Jane H. Hill and Judith T. Irvine.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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- Description
- viii, 316 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 12 linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine "responsibility", "authority", and "knowledge" - central, but problematic, concepts in contemporary anthropology. Their case studies analyze diverse forms of oral discourse - everyday conversation, conversational narrative, and more.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 15
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 15.
- Subject
- Anthropological linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- Language and culture
- anthropological linguistics
- pragmatics
- 17.61 pragmatics
- Anthropological linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- Language and culture
- Autorität
- Behauptung
- Diskursanalyse
- Ethnolinguistik
- Evidenz
- Mündliche Kommunikation
- Verantwortung
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Verbale communicatie
- Verantwoordelijkheid
- Ethnolinguistique
- Langage et culture
- Sociolinguistique
- Analyse du discours
- Responsabilité
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and indexes.
- Contents
- Intentions, self, and responsibility : an essay in Samoan ethnopragmatics / Alessandro Duranti -- Meaning without intention : lessons from divination / John W. Du Bois -- Senecca speaking styles and the location of authority / Wallace Chafe -- Obligations to the word : ritual speech, performance, and responsibility among the Weyewa / Joel C. Kuipers -- Insult and responsibility : verbal abuse in a Wolof village / Judith T. Irvine -- "Get outa my face" : entitlement and authoritative discourse / Amy Shuman -- Reported speech and affect on Nukulaelae Atoll / Niko Besnier -- Disclaimers of performance / Richard Bauman -- Mrs. Patricio's trouble : the distribution of responsibility in an account of personal experience / Jane H. Hill and Ofelia Zepeda -- The grammaticalization of responsibility and evidence : interactional manipulation of evidential categories in Newari / Edward H. Bendix.
- Evidentiary standards for American trials : just the facts / Susan U. Philips -- Recollections of fieldwork conversations, or authorial difficulties in anthropological writing / Tullio Maranhão.
- ISBN
- 0521415152
- 9780521415156
- 0521425298
- 9780521425292
- LCCN
- 91042610
- 9780521425292
- OCLC
- ocm24912152
- 24912152
- SCSB-1990769
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library