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Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru / Elena Mihas, with the assistance of Gregorio Santos Pérez.
Author
Mihas, Elena
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
©2017
Description
xxi, 343 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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PM5476 . M45 2017
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Subject(s)
Arawak language
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Arawak Indians
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Social life and customs
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Conversation analysis
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Peru
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Discourse analysis
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Peru
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Endangered languages
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Peru
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Campa languages
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Peru
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Perene River Valley
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Communication and culture
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Peru
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Perene River Valley (Peru)
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Languages
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Indigenous Studies
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Author
Santos Pérez, Gregorio
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Series
Studies in language companion series ; v. 181.
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Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 181
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Summary note
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the research community, the book is a focused exploration of discourse patterns of Alto Perene Arawak, with emphasis on conversational structures. The book's methodological scaffold is based on proposals and insights from multiple research fields, such as comparative conversation analysis, sociology, interactional linguistics, documentary linguistics, anthropological linguistics, and prosodic typology. The interactional patterns of a small Arawak language of Peru are shown to share the common infrastructure reported in the organization of conversation across other languages and cultures. Yet the analysis demonstrates a variety of unique nuances in the organization of interactional behavior of Alto Perene Arawak participants. The peculiarities observed are attributed to the language-specific semiotic resources and participants' orientation to the local cultural norms. The book's structured examination of conversational data of a small indigenous language of South America is anticipated to be of utility to linguistic research on understudied non-Western languages.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preliminaries
Objectives and significance
Scope and organization
Theoretical scaffolding
Goffman
Garfinkel
Conversation analysis
Linguistic tradition
Ethnography of communication
Methods and data
Economic, political, and sociolinguistic background of the community
Overview of Alto Perené grammatical practices
Declarative grammar
Interrogative grammar
Imperative grammar
Grammar of negative observations
Summary
A macroperspective on discourse organization
Linguistic resources used for coding participation roles
Participation roles
Person markers
Coding of production and reception roles by person markers
Slippage in the coding of production and reception roles
Non-default interpretation of production roles
Production roles in reported speech
Indexation of production roles by demonstrative enclitics
Production and reception roles in co-authored speech
Reception roles in imprecations
Reception roles in response cries
Pragmatically marked practices of coding reception roles
Reception roles in avoidance speech
Linguistic resources used for coding membership categories
Membership categories and category-bound activities
Kin terms
Social terms
The activity of vashiventantsi 'shaming'
Organization of focused encounters
Sequential organization
kinkitsavaiporokitantsi 'talk'
Apotoirintsi 'gathering'
Spatial organization
Kinkitsavaiporokitantsi 'talk'
Nonverbal resources deployed by participants in interaction
Production roles
Gaze behavior
Facial action
Gestures
Emblems
Pointing gestures
Depictive gestures
Non-production roles
A microperspective on talk management
Turn-taking
Syntax
Turn organization
Turn unit structure
Turn allocation
Overlapping talk
The role of recognizable syntactic schemata in early projections
The role of prefixal verbal formatives in early projections
Prosody
Overview of intonation contours
Main intonation contours
Participants' orientation to intonation contours
Participants' orientation to the boundary phenomena
The role of cumulative cues in projections
Repair
Self-repair
Self-repair operations
Scope of self-repair
Inventory and sequential placement of self-repair components
Prosody of self-repair
Bodily behavior
Other-initiated repair
Prosody of other-initiated repair
Epistemics
"The morality of knowledge'
K-plus agreements
Overview of linguistic resources used in K-plus agreements
Linguistic resources explicitly coding epistemic stance in K-plus agreements
Construction an 'it is the case' + declarative clause
Stand-alone tokens of the verb ari 'it is the case'
Construction omapero 'it is true' + declarative clause and stand-alone tokens of omapero 'it is true'
Perception verb ñakiro 'as you can see'
Other actions coded by the epistemically dependent verbs
Language- and culture-specific shaping of interactional practices
The generic organization of the interactional machinery
Turn-taking and repair practices
Resources used in coding participation structure
Collateral effects of K-plus agreement practices
Spillover of epistemically dependent resources
Prosodie structure
Organization of a single conversation
Envoi
References
Index.
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ISBN
9789027259462 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
9027259461 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
9027266115
9789027266118
LCCN
2016044180
OCLC
959953519
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