Person Reference in Interaction (eBook, PDF)

Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives
Redaktion: Enfield, N. J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? No matter the language or culture, we must choose from a range of options: full name ('Robert Smith'), reduced name ('Bob'), description ('tall guy'), kin term ('my son') etc. Our choices reflect how we know that person in context, and allow us to take a particular perspective on them. This book brings together a team of leading linguists, sociologists and anthropologists to show that there is more to person reference than meets the eye. Drawing on video-recorded, everyday interactions in nine languages, it examines the fascinating ways in which we exploit person reference for social and cultural purposes, and reveals the underlying principles of person reference across cultures from the Americas to Asia to the South Pacific. Combining rich ethnographic detail with cross-linguistic generalizations, it will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students interested in the relationship between language and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511282294
• Artikelnr.: 38194981

Autorenporträt

Nick Enfield is a scientific staff member in the Language and Cognition Group of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.

Tanya Stivers is a scientific staff member in the Language and Cognition Group of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Person reference in interaction Tanya Stivers, N. J. Enfield and Stephen
C. Levinson; Part I. Person Reference as a System: 2. Two preferences in
the organization of reference to persons in conversation and their
interaction (1979) Harvey Sacks and Emanuel A. Schegloff; 3. Optimizing
person reference - evidence from repair on Rossel Island Stephen C.
Levinson; 4. Alternative recognitionals in person reference Tanya Stivers;
5. Meanings of the unmarked: why 'default' person reference does more than
just refer N. J. Enfield; Part II. The Person Reference System in
Operation: 6. Conveying who you are: the presentation of self, strictly
speaking Emanuel A. Schegloff; 7. Person reference in Yucatec Maya William
F. Hanks; 8. Principles of person reference in Tzeltal Penelope Brown; 9.
Non-initial person reference in Korean: choosing between quasi-pronouns
Sun-Young Oh; 10. Person reference in Tzotzil gossip: referring dupliciter
John B. Haviland; Part III. The Person Reference System in Trouble: 11.
Intersubjectivity and progressivity in person (and place) reference John
Heritage; 12. Repairing person reference in a small Caribbean community
Jack Sidnell; 13. Reference and 'reference dangereuse' to persons in
Kilivila: an overview and case study Gunter Senft.