Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse

Book Overview

In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility', 'authority', and 'knowledge': central, but problematic, concepts in contemporary anthropology. Their detailed case studies analyze diverse forms of oral discourse - everyday conversation, conversational narrative, song, oratory, divination, and ritual poetry - in societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521415152
• ISBN13: 9780521415156
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"