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Merlan, Francesca. 1989. Jawoyn Relationship Terms: Interactional Dimensions of Australian Kin Classification. Anthropological Linguistics 31 (3-4) : 227–263.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interaction | kinship

Language as a subject

Jawoyn

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper describes how the participant roles of the speech situation intersect with the structure of kin relations encoded by such terms in Jawoyn, a language of the Northern Australian Territory.