Culture, interaction and person reference in an Australian language : an ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication / Murray Garde, Australian National University.
Publication Info.
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Introduction -- Bininj Gunwok kinship systems -- Ways of referring to people in Bininj Gunwok - The Kun-Debi system of triadic kinship reference -- Reference, grammar and indeterminacy in Bininj Gunwok conversation -- Culture, reference and circumspection -- The path of inference: the unravelling of referring expressions -- The trouble with Wamud: a conversational example of unsuccessful reference -- Person reference: culture, cognition and theories of communication -- References.
