Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993. |
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| Description: | vii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language. no. 15 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1387948 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures and tables
- Introduction
- 1. Intentions, self, and responsibility: an essay in Samoan ethnopragmatics
- 2. Meaning without intention: lessons from divination
- 3. Seneca speaking styles and the location of authority
- 4. Obligations to the word: ritual speech, performance, and responsibility among the Weyewa
- 5. Insult and responsibility: verbal abuse in a Wolof village
- 6. "Get outa my face": entitlement and authoritative discourse
- 7. Reported speech and affect on Nukulaelae Atoll
- 8. Disclaimers of performance
- 9. Mrs. Patricio's trouble: the distribution of responsibility in an account of personal experience
- 10. The grammaticalization of responsibility and evidence: interactional manipulation of evidential categories in Newari
- 11. Evidentiary standards for American trials: just the facts
- 12. Recollections of fieldwork conversations, or authorial difficulties in anthropological writing
- References
- Index of subjects
- Index of names