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Culture, interaction and person reference in an Australian language : an ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication /

The study of person reference stands at the cross-roads of linguistics, anthropology and psychology. As one aspect of an ethnography of communication, this book deals with a single problem - how one knows who is being talked about in conversation - from a rich and varied ethnographic perspective. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garde, Murray (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Australian
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Colección:Culture and language use ; v. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Bininj Gunwok kinship systems
  • Ways of referring to people in Bininj Gunwok
  • The Kun-Debi system of triadic kinship reference
  • Reference, grammar and indeterminacy in Bininj Gunwok conversation
  • Culture, reference and circumspection
  • The path of inference: the unravelling of referring expressions
  • The trouble with Wamud: a conversational example of unsuccessful reference
  • Person reference: culture, cognition and theories of communication
  • References.