Responsibility and Evidence in Oral DiscourseIn Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility', 'authority', and 'knowledge': central, but problematic, concepts in contemporary anthropology. Their detailed case studies analyze diverse forms of oral discourse - everyday conversation, conversational narrative, song, oratory, divination, and ritual poetry - in societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. The studies show how speakers attribute responsibility for acts and states of affairs, how particular forms of language and discourse relate to claims and disclaimers of responsibility, and how verbal acts are themselves social acts, subject to such attributions. The volume challenges those cognitive theorists who locate responsibility for the meaning of verbal acts solely in the intentions of individual speakers. Instead, the contributors focus on the production of meaning between speakers and audiences in particular social and cultural contexts, through dialogue and interaction which mediate between linguistic forms and their interpretations. This landmark volume will serve for years to come as a point of reference in the study, not only of responsibility and evidence, but of reported speech, authorship, and other phenomena in the social life of language. Besides linguistic and cultural anthropologists, linguistics, and folklorists, it will interest also readers from pragmatics, legal studies, sociology, religion, and social psychology. |
Contents
INTENTIONS SELF AND RESPONSIBILITY AN ESSAY IN SAMOAN ETHNOPRAGMATICS | 24 |
MEANING WITHOUT INTENTION LESSONS FROM DIVINATION | 48 |
SENECA SPEAKING STYLES AND THE LOCATION OF AUTHORITY | 72 |
OBLIGATIONS TO THE WORD RITUAL SPEECH PERFORMANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY AMONG THE WEYEWA | 88 |
INSULT AND RESPONSIBILITY VERBAL ABUSE IN A WOLOF VILLAGE | 105 |
GET OUTA MY FACE ENTITLEMENT AND AUTHORITATIVE DISCOURSE | 135 |
REPORTED SPEECH AND AFFECT ON NUKULAELAE ATOLL | 161 |
DISCLAIMERS OF PERFORMANCE | 182 |
MRS PATRICIOS TROUBLE THE DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONSIBILITY IN AN ACCOUNT OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE | 197 |
THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF RESPONSIBILITY AND EVIDENCE INTERACTIONAL POTENTIAL OF EVIDENTIAL CATEGORIES IN ... | 226 |
EVIDENTIARY STANDARDS FOR AMERICAN TRIALS JUST THE FACTS | 248 |
RECOLLECTIONS OF FIELDWORK CONVERSATIONS OR AUTHORIAL DIFFICULTIES IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL WRITING | 260 |
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Other editions - View all
Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse Jane H. Hill,Judith T. Irvine No preview available - 1993 |
Common terms and phrases
abuse action actor adolescent affect anaphoric ancestors anthropology assertion audience authoritative authority Azande Bakhtin Bauman Chafe challenge CHAR claim communication concern constructed dialogue context conversation cultural deixis discourse discussion divination divinatory Duranti entitlement ethnographic evidence law evidential example experience expression Falefa fieldwork fight stories fish fono frames genre griots Handsome Lake Icaraí indirect insult intention interaction interlocutor interpretation intonation units involvement Irvine ji-n knowledge language lines linguistic Maranhão meaning morpheme narrative narrator Newari Nukulaelae O'odham oral orator paper participant particular Patricio performance person pitch point of view political pragmatic present problem prosodic question quoted referential relationship reported speech responsibility ritual speech role s/he Samoan Searle sentence shift social society someone speaker speaking speech event speech-act theory structure style talk tell Tohono O'odham told traditional unmarked utterance verb verbal village voice Weyewa witness Wolof words xaxaar Zepeda
References to this book
Discourse Analysis: An Introduction Alexandra Georgakopoulou,Dionysis Goutsos No preview available - 2004 |