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Author Mihas, Elena, author.

Title Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru / Elena Mihas, with the assistance of Gregorio Santos Pérez.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Studies in Language Companion Series ; v. 181
Studies in language companion series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-340) and index.
Contents Preliminaries -- Linguistic resources used for coding participation roles -- Linguistic resources used for coding membership categories -- Organization of focused encounters -- Nonverbal resources deployed by participants in interaction -- Turn-taking -- Repair -- Epistemics -- Language- and culture-specific shaping of interactional practices.
Summary Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the research community, the book is a focused exploration of discourse patterns of Alto Perene Arawak, with emphasis on conversational structures. The book's methodological scaffold is based on proposals and insights from multiple research fields, such as comparative conversation analysis, sociology, interactional linguistics, documentary linguistics, anthropological linguistics, and prosodic typology. The interactional patterns of a small Arawak language of Peru are shown to share the common infrastructure reported in the organization of conversation across other languages and cultures. Yet the analysis demonstrates a variety of unique nuances in the organization of interactional behavior of Alto Perene Arawak participants. The peculiarities observed are attributed to the language-specific semiotic resources and participants' orientation to the local cultural norms. The book's structured examination of conversational data of a small indigenous language of South America is anticipated to be of utility to linguistic research on understudied non-Western languages.
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Subject Arawak language.
Arawak language.
Arawak Indians -- Social life and customs.
Arawak Indians -- Social life and customs.
Arawak Indians.
Conversation analysis -- Peru.
Conversation analysis.
Peru.
Discourse analysis -- Peru.
Discourse analysis.
Endangered languages -- Peru.
Endangered languages.
Campa languages -- Peru -- Perene River Valley.
Campa languages.
Peru -- Perene River Valley.
Communication and culture -- Peru.
Communication and culture.
Perene River Valley (Peru) -- Languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Santos Pérez, Gregorio, author.
Other Form: Print version: Mihas, Elena. Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027259462 (DLC) 2016044180
ISBN 9789027266118 (pdf)
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