Evidentiality in interaction / / edited by Janis Nuckolls, Lev Michael

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Evidentials (Linguistics); Social interaction; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Persona (resp. second.): NuckollsJanis B.; MichaelLev
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Shifting voices, shifting worlds; 1. Introduction; 2. The grammaticalization of speaker perspective in Quechua; 3. Synopsis of the tale of the "Encantadora" ('Enchantress') by don Simón, Tantamayo, Huamalíes province, Huánuco department, Peru. Narrated to Rosaleen Howard, September 4, 2009.; 4. Method of text transcription and analysis ; 5. The tale of 'The Enchantress': illustrative utterances8. Concluding remarks; References; "Watching for witness"; 1. Introduction; 2. Evidential marking in Australian Aboriginal Languages; 3. Social interaction and epistemic authority in the Australian Aboriginal "Camp" context; 4. The data; 5. Evidential strategies in Garrwa conversations; 5.1 Possible evidential strategies; 5.2 Actual evidential strategies; 6. Conclusions; References; "Who knows best?"; Introduction; Interactional structure and knowledge asymmetry; Sequential organization and epistemic asymmetry ; Establishing who knows best in assessment sequencesEstablishing who knows best through practices of confirming; Evidentials and other linguistic resources implicated in epistemic negotiations; References; Nanti self-quotation; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of Nanti reported speech constructions; Lexical quotative construction; Quotative evidential construction; Reportive evidential construction; 2.1 Functional differentiation of Nanti lexical and evidential quotative constructions; 3. Structural characteristics and interactional functions of concurrent quotative framing (CQF) ; 4. CQF and the pragmatics of quotation5. Distinguishing grammaticalized evidentials and evidential strategies; 6. Distinguishing epistemic modality and evidentiality in grammar and discourse; 7. Conclusion; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Evidentiality in interaction
• ISBN: 90-272-7001-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825643803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Benjamins current topics ; ; Volume 63.