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1 online resource (294 pages) : portraits. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Culture and language use ; 11
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Culture and language use ; v. 11.
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| Note |
Electronic version available. |
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Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
The study of person reference stands at the cross-roads of linguistics, anthropology and psychology. As one aspect of an ethnography of communication, this book deals with a single problem - how one knows who is being talked about in conversation - from a rich and varied ethnographic perspective. Through a combination of grammatical agreement and free pronouns, Bininj Gunwok possesses a pronominal system that, according to current theoretical accounts in linguistics, should facilitate clear cut reference. However, the descriptions of Bininj Gunwok conversation in this volume demonstrate that f. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Australian languages -- Grammar.
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Australian languages -- Grammar. |
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Australian languages. |
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Australian languages -- Discourse analysis.
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Discourse analysis. |
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Language and culture -- Australia.
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Language and culture. |
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Australia. |
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Sociolinguistics -- Australia.
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Sociolinguistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Garde, Murray. Culture, interaction and person reference in an Australian language : an ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 xx, 274 pages : porttrait Culture and language use ; 11 9789027202949 (DLC) 2013031882 |
| ISBN |
9789027271242 (e-book) |
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9027271240 |
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9789027202949 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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902720294X |
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