Person reference, proper names and circumspection in Bininj Kunwok conversation

Garde, Murray

doi:10.1075/slcs.104.11gar

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“…This is the first time in the conversation that the identity of the grandson has been so explicitly expressed, the first mention being a less explicit murdu 'mad one' . The shift to a more explicit reference, and one associated with Ellen, is a well established strategy for dealing with problems of identification (Stivers & Enfield 2007;Garde 2008). Kin term references are more frequently, although not exclusively, expressed in Garrwa so the shift here can be seen as a result of the overall repair strategy (i.e.…”

Section: Code-switching In Repair Sequencesmentioning

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Code-Switching as an Interactional Resource in Garrwa/Kriol Talk-in-Interaction

Mushin

2010

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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This paper is a study of bilingual talk among Garrwa/Kriol speakers in the communities of Borroloola and Robinson River, NT, focussing on choices speakers make between traditional and non-traditional Indigenous languages in ordinary conversations. The analysis presented here supports the view of code-switching, recently summarized by Matras, as an interactional resource*a means by which speakers can structure their talk around the local contingencies of an interaction. Language choice may be symbolic of a particular social stance or 'social arena' in a given context, but the fact of language shift (regardless of the direction of the shift), may be equally significant in demarcating conversational activities, and marking shifts in perspective.

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Section: Code-switching In Repair Sequencesmentioning

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Code-Switching as an Interactional Resource in Garrwa/Kriol Talk-in-Interaction

Mushin

2010

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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“…An interactional style distinct from Anglo English has been noted in some traditional Aboriginal languages (cf. Walsh 1991Walsh , 1997Garde 2003Garde , 2008Blythe 2009; Trudgen unmistakable evidence of a continuity of discourse practices that have been identified in some traditional Aboriginal languages.…”

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“…SeeGarde (2008) for a discussion of a similar set of referring terms from a traditional Aboriginal language (Bininj Gunwok), and alsoStanner (1937).5 The word kal 'call' in Kriol is culturally significant. It is used to describe the relationship between kin when there are no blood ties, as in 'he calls her "mother"'.Cultural Scripts, Social Cognition and Social Interaction 287 Downloaded by [Selcuk Universitesi] at 03:28 07 February 2015…”

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Cultural Scripts, Social Cognition and Social Interaction in Roper Kriol

Nicholls

2013

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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“…Recent conversation analytic (CA) work (e.g. Blythe 2009;Garde 2002Garde , 2008Gardner & Mushin 2007;Mushin & Gardner 2009) has begun this process of finegrained interactional analysis. For example, in Mushin and Gardner's (2009) investigation of Australian Aboriginal people talking among themselves (without the presence of non-Aboriginal speakers), they provide detailed interactional evidence to support the claim that Aboriginal people tolerate long periods of silence and that they treat such silences as ordinary (Mushin & Gardner 2009: 17).…”

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Taking an Interactional Perspective: Examining Children's Talk in the Australian Aboriginal Community of Yakanarra

Rendle-Short

Moses

2010

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Understanding how children of different ages and different cultures design and organize their talk allows us to better understand how children demonstrate intersubjectivity, how they structure their social world, and how they orient to social and cultural practices. Although researchers are beginning to re-examine interactionally some of the previous observational claims concerning adult Aboriginal conversational style, less focus has been given to Indigenous children's interactional style. Previous observational claims concerning Aboriginal conversational style include increased toleration of silence, increased occurrence of interruptions, reluctance to respond to questions, and the tendency to enter a conversation without attending to the talk of others. One of the aims of the paper is to examine instances of children's interaction against the backdrop of these observations concerning Aboriginal adult conversation style in order to understand how Indigenous children interact with others within the multilingual environment in which they find themselves. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, the paper analyses the talk of two children from Yakanarra in order to show (a) how the children under analysis responded to a request to do something, and the sorts of techniques used to mobilize such a response; and (b) how the children monitored the surrounding adults' talk occurring within the same interactional space. The analysis, presented against the backdrop of what has been observed to date concerning adult Indigenous conversational style, demonstrates the importance of examining the detail of talk, taking all aspects into account (including prosody, pauses, overlap), in order to understand how two Indigenous children living in Yakanarra interact within their social and cultural worlds.

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Person reference, proper names and circumspection in Bininj Kunwok conversation

Cited by 168 publications

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Code-Switching as an Interactional Resource in Garrwa/Kriol Talk-in-Interaction

Code-Switching as an Interactional Resource in Garrwa/Kriol Talk-in-Interaction

Cultural Scripts, Social Cognition and Social Interaction in Roper Kriol

Taking an Interactional Perspective: Examining Children's Talk in the Australian Aboriginal Community of Yakanarra

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