Language description informed by theory / edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin, Diana Guillemin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pensalfini, Rob.

Turpin, Myfany, 1972-

Guillemin, Diana.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion Series

Studies in language companion series

Studies in Language Companion Series ; 147

Language:

Australian languages

Austronesian (Other)

English

Subjects (All):

English language.

Linguistics.

Modality (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Language Description Informed by Theory; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Editors' introduction; Rob Pensalfini1, Diana Guillemin2 & Myfany Turpin1; Editors' Introduction; 1. Language description and language theory; 2. Language descriptions informed by theory; 3. Mary Napaljarri Laughren; References; Bibliography of Mary Laughren*; Myfany Turpin1 & Diana Guillemin2; Bibliography of Mary Laughren*; 1. Publications; 1. Unpublished materials (Dissertations, Papers, Manuscripts) held in archives; 1. Warlpiri Literature (Translations by Mary Laughren)

1. Collated collections (umbers refer to the AIATSIS accession number)1. Audio-visual publications and field recordings deposited at AIATSIS; Evaluating Bilingual Education in Warlpiri schools*; Samantha Disbray; Evaluating Bilingual Education in Warlpiri schools*; 1. Introduction; 2. Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs; 2.1 Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs: English literacy; 2.2 Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs: Wider Criteria; 3. Warlpiri Bilingual Education Program; 3.1 Teacher training and the Warlpiri professional network

3.2 Warlpiri Literacy Production3.3 Warlpiri Dictionary Project and the Development of Warlpiri Curriculum; 4. A Final wind back?; References; part 1; Phonology; Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk*; Myfany Turpin1, Katherine Demuth2 & April Ngampart Campbell3; Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk*; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Background to Arandic baby talk; 1.2 Background to Arandic languages; 1.3 Age-graded forms of Arandic baby talk; 1.4 Methodology; 1.5 Arandic phonemes; 2. Segmental processes in ABT; 2.1 Collapse of coronal distinctions in early ABT

4.1 Shared vocabulary between WBT and ABT4.2 Source of the unique BT terms; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusion; References; Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel*; Erich Round; Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel*; 1. Introduction; 2. Nasals; 2.1 Nasal articulation and Acoustic cues; 2.2 The timing of velic lowering in enhancement theory; 3. Laterals; 3.1 Lateral articulation and its parallels with nasals; 3.2 Parallels between laterals and nasals with respect to enhancement; 4. A critical evaluation of claimed perceptual parallels in pre-stopping

4.1 Prestopping of laterals is unlikely to enhance place cues

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 20, 2014).

ISBN:

9789027270917

9027270910

OCLC:

868284094