From quotative other to quotative self
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Janis B. Nuckolls
Abstract
Evidentials in Pastaza Quichua, an Amazonian dialect of Ecuadorian Quechua, are examined and their uses in narratives compared. The novel contribution of this chapter is to show, by comparing data from personal experience narratives, that evidentials are used to convey speaker subjectivity, rather than source of information, and that switches between different speaker subjectivities, which may be encoded as ‘selves’ or ‘others’, are particularly evident in passages where momentous, life-changing statuses or interpersonal upheavals are being articulated.
Abstract
Evidentials in Pastaza Quichua, an Amazonian dialect of Ecuadorian Quechua, are examined and their uses in narratives compared. The novel contribution of this chapter is to show, by comparing data from personal experience narratives, that evidentials are used to convey speaker subjectivity, rather than source of information, and that switches between different speaker subjectivities, which may be encoded as ‘selves’ or ‘others’, are particularly evident in passages where momentous, life-changing statuses or interpersonal upheavals are being articulated.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
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Foreword
- Evidentiality in social interaction 1
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Introduction
- Evidentials and evidential strategies in interactional and socio-cultural context 13
- Enhancing national solidarity through the deployment of verbal categories 21
- From quotative other to quotative self 57
- Shifting voices, shifting worlds 75
- “Watching for witness” 103
- “Who knows best?” 127
- Nanti self-quotation 155
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Index
- Index 193
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
-
Foreword
- Evidentiality in social interaction 1
-
Introduction
- Evidentials and evidential strategies in interactional and socio-cultural context 13
- Enhancing national solidarity through the deployment of verbal categories 21
- From quotative other to quotative self 57
- Shifting voices, shifting worlds 75
- “Watching for witness” 103
- “Who knows best?” 127
- Nanti self-quotation 155
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Index
- Index 193
