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Mihas2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key Mihas2016
Author(s) Elena Mihas
Title Language-specific resources in talk: A study of epistemic stance coding in Alto Perené (Arawak) agreements
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Tag(s) EMCA, Alto Perené Arawak, assessments, conversation, epistemic stance, K-plus agreement
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Year 2016
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 18
Number 2
Pages 165–187
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DOI 10.1177/1461445615623905
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Abstract

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in lowland Peru, this study examines linguistic resources used for coding agreements in Alto Perené (Arawak) conversation. The study draws on the anthropological tradition of conversation analysis-informed ethnographies. The investigation of agreeing responses is limited to those which allow a projectedly ‘knowing’, or K-plus, participant to raise his or her epistemic status from the sequentially second position. It is shown that Alto Perené K-plus response formats include the evaluative property word kametsari ‘good’ with an intensifier and/or upgraded prosody, argument focus structures, two polarity verbs ari ‘it is the case’ and omapero ‘it is true’, and the verb ñakiro ‘as you can see’. This analysis demonstrates a relationship between the Alto Perené practices of expressing K-plus agreements and the collateral effects arising from the particular meanings and functions of structures which are used for accomplishing an agreeing action.

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