Evidentiality in interaction

by Michael, Lev Nuckolls, Janis B.

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Full title :Evidentiality in interaction / edited by Janis Nuckolls, Lev Michaek

Summary

In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2, 2012), draws together complementary perspectives on the social and interactional life of evidentiality, drawing on data from diverse languages, including Albanian, English, Garrwa (Pama-Nyungan, Australia), Huamalíes Quechua (Quechuan, Peru), Nanti (Arawak, Peru), and Pastaza Quichua (Quechuan, Ecuador). The language-specific studies in this volume are all based on the close analysis of discourse or communicative interaction, and examine both evidential systems of varying degrees of grammaticalization and 'evidential strategies' present in languages without grammaticalized evidentials. The analyses presented draw on conversational analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnopoetics, pragmatics, and theories of deixis and indexicality, and will be of interest to students of evidentiality in a variety of analytical traditions.

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Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:199 s

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027242518, 9027242518
oclc:ocn900726401
LC Classification:P325.5.E96
Dewey Decimal:415

Foreword Evidentiality in social interaction William F. Hanks 1 -- 12 Introduction Evidentials and evidential strategies in interactional and socio-cultural context Janis Nuckolls and Lev Michael 13 -- 20 Enhancing national solidarity through the deployment of verbal categories: How the Albanian Admirative participates in the construction of a reliable self and an unreliable other Victor A. Friedman 21 -- 56 From quotative other to quotative self: Evidential usage in Pastaza Quichua Janis Nuckolls 57 -- 73 Shifting voices, shifting worlds: Evidentiality, epistemic modality and speaker perspective in Quechua oral narrative Rosaleen Howard 75 -- 101 "Watching for witness": Evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation Ilana Mushin 103 -- 126 "Who knows best?": Evidentiality and epistemic asymmetry in conversation Jack Sidnell 127 -- 153 Nanti self-quotation: Implications for the pragmatics of reported speech and evidentiality Lev Michael 155 -- 191 Index Index 193 -- 202