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

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Superior document:Culture and language use ; 11
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Culture and language use ; v. 11.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 pages) :; portraits.
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Table of 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.