Language description informed by theory
by Guillemin, Diana Pensalfini, Rob Turpin, Myfany
This chapter examines the connections between shared cultural knowledge about kinship structure and the pragmatic inferences that enable interlocutors to assess each other's (multiple) perspectives. By drawing on Bininj Gunwok conversational data this chapter shows how linguistic choices are influenced by the dynamics of social relationships, particularly by context-specific speaker goals and stance-taking that focuses on intersubjectivity. The choice of kinterm is an essential component of sta…
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- Full title :Language description informed by theory / edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin, Diana Guillemin.
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This chapter examines the connections between shared cultural knowledge about kinship structure and the pragmatic inferences that enable interlocutors to assess each other's (multiple) perspectives. By drawing on Bininj Gunwok conversational data this chapter shows how linguistic choices are influenced by the dynamics of social relationships, particularly by context-specific speaker goals and stance-taking that focuses on intersubjectivity. The choice of kinterm is an essential component of stance-taking. A switch in kinterm shifts the indexes of various aspects of speaker agency (e.g. effecti.
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- Publication Date:2014
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- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014
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Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 11 févr. 2016).
TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE.
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- Description:1 ressource en ligne (403 p.).
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- ISBN:9789027270917, 9027270910
- oclc:ocn939500541
- LC Classification:PE1325
- Dewey Decimal:425
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