Evidentiality in interaction
by Michael, Lev Nuckolls, Janis B.
This chapter describes two quotation strategies employed by speakers of Nanti, one involving grammaticalized quotatives and another involving complement-taking verbs of saying, and examines the consequences of the pragmatic differences between these strategies for two key questions in the study of evidentiality: first, the importance of degree of grammaticalization in delimiting 'evidentials'; and second, the importance of the analytical distinction between epistemic modal and 'source of inform…
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- Full title :Evidentiality in interaction / edited by Janis Nuckolls, Brigham Young University ; Lev Michael, University of California at Berkeley.
Summary
This chapter describes two quotation strategies employed by speakers of Nanti, one involving grammaticalized quotatives and another involving complement-taking verbs of saying, and examines the consequences of the pragmatic differences between these strategies for two key questions in the study of evidentiality: first, the importance of degree of grammaticalization in delimiting 'evidentials'; and second, the importance of the analytical distinction between epistemic modal and 'source of information' evidential meanings. Nanti use of the two quotation strategies is specifically analyzed in the.
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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:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027270016, 9027270015, 1306850681, 9781306850681
- oclc:ocn881792248
- LC Classification:P325.5.E96
- Dewey Decimal:415
Table of Contents
Evidentiality in Interaction; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Foreword. Evidentiality in social interaction ; 1. General remarks; 2. Family of effects; 3. Conclusion: Evidentials as deictics; References; Introduction. Evidentials and evidential strategies in interactional and socio-cultural context; References.; Enhancing national solidarity through the deployment of verbal categories; 0. Introduction; 1. Geo-political background; 2. Linguistic background; 2.1 Morphology of the Admirative; 2.2 Comparison with Macedonian; 2.3 Albanian usage compared with Macedonian.
3. The pragmatics of everyday Admirative usage4. The Admirative in news from Kosovo 1994-2000; 4.1. Admiratives and news sources; 4.2. QIK reports 1994-1997; 4.3. KMDLMJ reports 1998-23 March 1999; 4.4. KMDLMJ reports 1999-2000; 5. Conclusion; References; From quotative other to quotative self; 1. Introduction; 2. The debate over the evidentials -mi and -shi; 3. Evidential perspectives in represented speech; 4. Evidential selves in narrative: the speaking self -mi; 5. Evidential selves in narrative: from other to self; 6. Conclusion; Symbols and abbreviations; Transcription and orthography.
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