Abstract
Languages have complex and varied means for representing points of view, including constructions that can express multiple perspectives on the same event. This paper presents data on two evidential constructions in the language Duna (Papua New Guinea) that imply features of both speaker and addressee knowledge simultaneously. I discuss how talking about an addressee’s knowledge can occur in contexts of both coercion and co-operation, and, while apparently empathetic, can provide a covert way to both manipulate the addressee’s attention and express speaker stance. I speculate that ultimately, however, these multiple perspective constructions may play a pro-social role in building or repairing the interlocutors’ common ground.
Acknowledgments
Thanks always to members of the Rewapi and Rale communities in Kopiago, and especially Petros Kilapa for his work on recording, transcribing, translating and explaining his language. This research was financially supported by the following grants and institutions: The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Language and Cognition Department); the Swedish Research Council (Project Title: Complex Perspective in Epistemic Assessment); the European Research Council (Project Title: Human Sociality and Systems of Language Use, Starting Grant no. 240853); and the Australian Research Council (Discovery Project 0878126, Language and Social Cognition).
Abbreviations
- abil
abilitative
- assert
assertion
- c
current
- caus
causative
- CD
constructed data
- cmpl
completive
- cncl
concealed location
- dep
dependent
- du
dual
- ED
elicited data
- erg
ergative
- exclam
exclamation
- hab
habitual
- hes
hesitation
- imp
imperative
- impf
imperfective
- impl
impersonal
- int
intentive
- intens
intensifier
- IV
interview
- lnk
linker
- loc
locative
- mnr
manner
- MP
multi-party text
- p
previous
- pfv
perfective
- pln
place name
- pr
pair
- psn
personal name
- q
question marker
- reas
reasoning
- rep
reportative
- sg
singular
- sns
non-visual sensory
- seq
sequential
- shrd
shared
- sim
simultaneous
- spec
specific
- stat
stative
- sw
switch
- T
monologic text
- unc
uncertainty
- vis
visual
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Epistemic marking and multiple perspective: An introduction
- The encoding of addressee’s perspective in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru)
- Refracting views: How to construct complex perspective in reported speech and thought in Ungarinyin
- Using you to get to me: Addressee perspective and speaker stance in Duna evidential marking
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Epistemic marking and multiple perspective: An introduction
- The encoding of addressee’s perspective in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru)
- Refracting views: How to construct complex perspective in reported speech and thought in Ungarinyin
- Using you to get to me: Addressee perspective and speaker stance in Duna evidential marking
- (Inter)subjectivity in interaction: Investigating (inter)subjective meanings in Yurakaré conversational data