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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nuckolls, Janis B., editor.

Michael, Lev, editor.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; Volume 63.

Benjamins Current Topics, 1874-0081 ; Volume 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidentials (Linguistics).

Social interaction.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270016

9027270015

OCLC:

881792248