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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453708703321

Autore

Garde Murray

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7124-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 pages) : portraits

Collana

Culture and language use ; ; 11

Disciplina

499/.15

Soggetti

Australian languages - Grammar

Australian languages - Discourse analysis

Language and culture - Australia

Sociolinguistics - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.