Article published in:
Evidentiality in InteractionEdited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael
[Benjamins Current Topics 63] 2014
► pp. 103–126
“Watching for witness”
Evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation
Ilana Mushin | University of Queensland
Linguistic forms with dedicated evidential meanings have been described for a number of Australian languages (eg. Donaldson 1980, Laughren 1982, Wilkins 1989) but there has been little written on how these are used in social interaction. This chapter examines evidential strategies in ordinary Garrwa conversations, by taking into account what we know more generally about the status of knowledge and epistemic authority in Aboriginal societies, and applying this understanding to account for the ways knowledge is managed in ‘ordinary’ interactions.
Published online: 19 June 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.63.07mus
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.63.07mus