Culture, interaction and person reference in an Australian language
Subtitle: an ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication
By: Murray Garde, Australian National University
Series: Culture and language use -- Volume 11
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789027202949; 9789027271242
Subjects: Australian languages; Grammar; Discourse analysis; Language and culture; Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Bininj Gunwok kinship systems; title: Ways of referring to people in Bininj Gunwok - The Kun-Debi system of triadic kinship reference; title: Reference, grammar and indeterminacy in Bininj Gunwok conversation; title: Culture, reference and circumspection; title: The path of inference: the unravelling of referring expressions; title: The trouble with Wamud: a conversational example of unsuccessful reference; title: Person reference: culture, cognition and theories of communication; title: References.