Culture, interaction and person reference in an Australian language : an ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication / Murray Garde, Australian National University.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture and language use ; v. 11.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (294 pages) : portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789027271242 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture, interaction and person reference in an Australian language : an ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication.DDC classification:
  • 499/.15 23
LOC classification:
  • PL7003 .G37 2013eb
Online resources:
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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.