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1 online resource |
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Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; volume 63 |
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 63.
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| 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 |
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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; From quotative other to quotative self; 1. Introduction; 2. The debate over the evidentials -mi and -shi; 3. Evidential perspectives in represented speech; 4. Evidential selves in narrative: the speaking self -mi; 5. Evidential selves in narrative: from other to self; 6. Conclusion; Symbols and abbreviations; Transcription and orthography |
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3. Social interaction and epistemic authority in the Australian Aboriginal "Camp" context4. 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 sequences; Establishing who knows best through practices of confirming; Evidentials and other linguistic resources implicated in epistemic negotiations; References |
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Nanti self-quotation1. 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 quotation; 5. Distinguishing grammaticalized evidentials and evidential strategies; 6. Distinguishing epistemic modality and evidentiality in grammar and discourse; 7. Conclusion; References |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Evidentials (Linguistics)
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Social interaction.
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Evidentials (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general
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Social interaction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nuckolls, Janis B., editor
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Michael, Lev, editor
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| ISBN |
9789027270016 |
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9027270015 |
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1306850681 |
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9781306850681 |
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