Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse

(Part of the Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Series)

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In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility', 'authority', and 'knowledge': central, but problematic, concepts in contemporary anthropology. Their detailed case studies analyze diverse forms of oral discourse - everyday conversation, conversational narrative, song, oratory, divination, and ritual poetry - in societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521415152

ISBN13:9780521415156

Release Date:June 1993

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:324 Pages

Weight:1.33 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Anthropology Language Arts Linguistics Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Words, Language & Grammar

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