LINGUIST List 22.3797 Thu Sep 29 2011 Diss: Anthro Ling: Sjoerdsma: 'Evidentiality and Intersubjectivity ...' Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Sonja Gipper , Evidentiality and Intersubjectivity in Yurakaré: An interactional account Message 1: Evidentiality and Intersubjectivity in Yurakaré: An interactional account Date: 22-Sep-2011 From: Sonja Gipper <sonja.gippermpi.nl> Subject: Evidentiality and Intersubjectivity in Yurakaré: An interactional account E-mail this message to a friend Institution: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Program: Department of Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2011 Author: Edith Sjoerdsma Dissertation Title: Evidentiality and Intersubjectivity in Yurakaré: An interactional account Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics Dissertation Director: Pieter C. Muysken Stephen Curtis Levinson Rik Van Gijn Dissertation Abstract: This dissertation is a study of the evidential markers of Yurakaré, an endangered unclassified language of Bolivia, as they are used in social interaction. Using methods from Conversation Analysis, the semantics and interactional functions of the evidentials are described and analyzed. The Yurakaré evidentials all have an intersubjective meaning component, which is concerned with expressing the distribution of knowledge between the speakers. It is argued that this semantic component can only be detected in conversational data, since only in social interaction people negotiate their relative perspectives on the information they are talking about. This demonstrates the importance of studying conversational data for a comprehensive understanding of the semantics of grammatical markers such as evidentials. In descriptive linguistics, the use of interactional data is not yet standard. This dissertation demonstrates that the study of social interaction can make an important contribution to language description and to the field of linguistics in general. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 29-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.