Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language

Name: Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language | An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication
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An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication

Murray Garde(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 14. November 2013

XX, 274 Seiten

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Culture, Interaction and Person Referencein an Australian Language
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
In Memoriam
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations and orthographic conventions
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and orthographic conventions
Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Linguistic anthropology
1.3 The indeterminacy of reference
1.4 Bininj Gunwok, dialects and location.
1.5 Eastern Bininj Gunwok in brief geographical and historical context
1.6 Synopsis
Bininj Gunwok Kinship Systems
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Moieties, subsections and other social categories
2.3 Subsections in Bininj Gunwok
2.4 Bininj Gunwok basic kin terms
2.5 Arguments about Bininj Gunwok kinship
2.6 Generation skewing
2.7 Ceremonial moieties
2.8 Concluding remarks
Ways of referring to people in Bininj Gunwok
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Diversity in person reference
3.3 Basic kin terms
3.4 Other types of non-vocative terms
3.5 Dyadic terms
3.6 Kinship verbs
3.6.1 Successive generation patrilineal and matrilineal kin, bornang, yawmang
3.6.2 Semantics of kinship verbs
3.6.3 Other kinship verb expressions
3.7 Other forms of person reference
3.7.1 Reference by subsection
3.7.2 Use of clan names in reference
3.7.3 Cross-sex sibling reference
3.7.4 Reference to the deceased
3.7.5 Reference by matrilineal phratry terms
3.7.6 Nicknames
3.8 Some concluding comments
The kun-debi system of triadic kinship reference
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Triadic kinship systems in other languages
4.3 Deficiencies of the triangle analogy
4.4 Centricity
4.4.1 Centricity type
4.4.1.1 Egocentric terms
4.4.1.2 Tucentric terms
4.4.1.3 Tucentric dyad
4.4.1.4 Dicentric terms
4.4.1.5 'Isosceles' terms
4.4.1.6 Acentric terms
4.4.1.7 Equilateral terms
4.4.2 centricity encoding
4.4.3 centricity stability
4.5 Linguistic form and semantics of kun-debi terms
4.5.1 na-karrng/ngal-karrng
4.5.2 na-kiwalak/ngal-kiwalak
4.5.3 -dadjkawarre
4.5.4 pronouns and kun-kurrng register as kun-debi
4.5.5 Kun-debi and neutralization
4.6 Predicting centricity
4.6.1 The juniority-seniority principle
4.6.2 The markedness of certain affinal kin
4.7 Kun-debi and indeterminacy
4.8 Learning Kun-debi
4.9 Concluding comments
Reference, grammar and indeterminacy in Bininj Gunwok conversation
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Person reference, reference tracking and semantic generality
5.2.1 Some grammatical background
5.2.2 Theorizing a 'preference for use of the implicit over the explicit'
5.3 Background local knowledge and inferring the identity of underspecified referents- some examples
5.4 Generic and impersonal uses of some verbal participant prefixes
5.5 Concluding comments
Culture, reference and circumspection
6.1 The language of ceremony and esoteric knowledge
6.2 Circumspect language and kinship relationships characterised by restraint
6.3 The circumspect nature of requests
6.4 Joking
6.5 Concluding comments
The path of inference
7.1 Introduction
7.2 A story about hunting kangaroos
7.2.1 Background
7.2.2 Episode 1. First mentions - clans names and place names
7.2.3 Episodes 2 & 3 - Kun-derbi and basic kin terms
7.2.4 Episode 4- Kun-derbi and nicknames
7.2.5 Episode 5- Ceremonial names and basic kin terms
7.2.6 Episode 6: Multiple referring expressions
7.2.7 Episode 7: Referring expressions in interactive competition
7.3 Telephone conversations
7.4 Other kinds of refusal to upgrade recognitional expressions
7.5 Concluding comments
The trouble with Wamud
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Introducing the problem referent (lines 1-16)
8.3 Recognition via linking kin
8.3.1 Link number 1
8.3.2 Link number 2 - establishing common ground
8.3.3 Other linking kin
8.3.4 Linking kin - circumspect and associative reference
8.4 Conclusion- recognition is not always essential to 'fruitful' reference
Person reference
9.1 In summary
9.2 Bininj Gunwok person reference and theories of communication
9.2.1 Recognitional demonstratives
9.2.2 Pronouns in switch reference
9.3 Some general comments about circumspection
9.4 A preference for the implicit as a form of verbal art
Language index
Subject index

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