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Publication details [#62099]

Mihas, Elena. 2016. Language-specific resources in talk: A study of epistemic stance coding in Alto Perené (Arawak) agreements. Discourse Studies 18 (2) : 165–187.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

Using elaborate ethnographic fieldwork in lowland Peru, this paper explores linguistic resources employed for coding conventions in Alto Perené (Arawak) conversation. The inquiry uses the anthropological tradition of conversation analysis-animated ethnographies. The examination of agreeing replies is restricted to those which admit a projectedly ‘knowing’, or K-plus, participant to increase his or her epistemic status from the sequentially second position. It is displayed that Alto Perené K-plus reply formats cover the evaluative possession word kametsari ‘good’ with an intensifier and/or upgraded prosody, argument focus structures, two polarity verbs ari ‘it is the case’ and omapero ‘it is true’, and the verb ñakiro ‘as you can see’. This assay shows a link between the Alto Perené practices of voicing K-plus conventions and the collateral effects emerging from the special meanings and functions of structures which are employed for achieving an agreeing action.