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Published 2014.
In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidential, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special ...
Published 2014.
In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidential, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2, 2012), draws together complementary perspectives on the social and interactional life of evidentiality, drawing on data from diverse languages, including Albanian, English, Garrwa (Pama-Nyungan, Australia), Huamal?es Quechua (Quechuan, Peru), Nanti (Arawak, Peru), and Pastaza Quichua (Quechuan, Ecuador). The language-specific studies in this volume are all based on the close analysis of discourse or communicative interaction, and examine both evidential systems of varying degrees of grammaticalization and 'evidential strategies' present in languages without grammaticalized evidential. The analyses presented draw on conversational analysis, ethnography of communication, ethno poetics, pragmatics, and theories of deixis and indexicality, and will be of interest to students of evidentiality in a variety of analytical traditions.
