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.