Garde, Murray.

Culture, interaction and person reference in an Australian language : an ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication / Murray Garde, Australian National University. - 1 online resource (294 pages) : portraits. - Culture and language use ; 11 . - Culture and language use ; v. 11. .

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.

9789027271242 (ebook)


Australian languages--Grammar.
Australian languages--Discourse analysis.
Language and culture--Australia.
Sociolinguistics--Australia.


Electronic books.

PL7003 / .G37 2013eb

499/.15