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Publication details [#28046]

Benson, James, Peter Fries, William Greaves, Kazuyoshi Iwamoto, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Jared Taglialatela. 2002. Confrontation and support in bonobo-human discourse. Functions of Language 9 (1) : 1–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agreeing | animal communication | conversational analysis | disagreeing | interaction

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-998X

Journal DOI

10.1075/fol

Annotation

This paper deals with the communicative abilities of the Bonobo ape Kanzi. A conversation and lexico-grammatical analysis of his 'conversation' with S. Savage-Rumbaugh suggests Kanzi controls interactional structure, even while one may debate his control of grammatical structure.