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Using you to get to me: Addressee perspective and speaker stance in Duna evidential marking

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Published/Copyright: June 17, 2015

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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