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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 30-04-2020
Publisher: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Date: 15-12-2019
DOI: 10.22363/2312-9182-2019-23-3-603-618
Abstract: Vološinov ([1929]1973) is one of the most frequently cited works in studies on reported speech, but its interpretation varies considerably between authors. Within the linguistic anthropological tradition, its central message is often conflated with Erving Goffman’s ‘speaker roles’, and in a recent publication, Goddard and Wierzbicka (2018) marry ideas they attribute to Vološinov (1973) and Mikhail M. Bakhtin to those by the formal semanticist Donald Davidson. Responding to Goddard and Wierzbicka (2018) (and a shorter version of a similar argument in Goddard and Wierzbicka (2019), this paper seeks to explore the philosophical foundations of reported speech research, particularly in relation to Vološinov/Bakhtin. It suggests that reported speech research is motivated by two fundamentally distinct goals, one here labelled ‘Fregean’ and the other ‘Bakhtinian’. Questions and methods used in both of these research traditions lead to two radically different understandings of reported speech. This affects the applicability of the definition of direct/indirect speech Goddard and Wierzbicka (2018) propose. It also motivates an alternative approach to reported speech advocated by the current author and others that is criticised by Goddard and Wierzbicka (2018). The article further seeks to rehabilitate the analysis of Wierzbicka (1974), which Goddard and Wierzbicka (2018) partially reject. Whereas Wierzbicka (1974) treats direct and indirect speech as constructions of English, Goddard and Wierzbicka (2018) elevate the opposition to a universal, which belies the cultural sensitivity to semantic variation the authors display in other work. The paper concludes with a brief note about the semantic status of ‘say’ in Australian languages and states that the relevance of Vološinov ([1929]1973) is undiminished, also in the light of recent developments in language description. It remains a highly original study whose implications are yet to fully impact research on reported speech.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 07-09-2021
DOI: 10.3389/FCOMM.2021.624486
Abstract: We present a first, broad-scale typology of extended reported speech, ex les of lexicalised or grammaticalised reported speech constructions without a regular quotation meaning. These typically include meanings that are conceptually close to reported speech, such as think or want , but also interpretations that do not appear to have an obvious conceptual relation with talking, such as cause or begin to . Reported speech may therefore reflect both concepts of communication and inner worlds, and meanings reminiscent of ‘core grammar’, such as evidentiality, modality, aspect (relational) tense and clause linking. We contextualise our findings in the literature on fictive interaction and perspective and suggest that extended reported speech may lend insight into a fundamental aspect of grammar: the evolution of verbal categories. Based on the striking similarity between the meanings of extended reported speech and grammatical categories, we hypothesise that the phenomenon represents a plausible linguistic context in which grammar evolved.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 17-08-2023
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 27-04-2015
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2022
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 31-12-2015
DOI: 10.1075/BJL.29.09SPR
Abstract: Jakobson (1957) bases the analysis of mood on a three-part structure that crucially involves two participant variables. Although the definition of evidentiality in Jakobson (1957) differs in some fundamental ways, it also allows for the explication of a participant structure inherent in evidential meanings. In this paper I argue that by exploring the interaction between these participant structures in multiple-perspective constructions and in reported speech, the framework proposed in Jakobson (1957) enables us to systematically examine phenomena that are typically assumed to arise in evidential expressions as pragmatic effects, particularly ‘commitment effects’ and evidential interpretations of modals. I propose that this approach present us with a principled account of stance meanings (Du Bois 2007), more particularly, of the semantic and pragmatic interaction between modal and evidential meanings, based on their semantic structure.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2020
Abstract: Evans et al. (2018a,b) introduce the notion of ‘engagement’ as a new grammatical domain related to intersubjective coordination of knowledge. The present paper applies this notion to data from the Australian Aboriginal language Ungarinyin. It identifies three markers/construction types in the language as expressions of engagement and develops a descriptive framework rooted in Bakhtinian Dialogism in order to demonstrate why these expressions represent the category. It is argued that the main problems that arise in the analysis of engagement are very similar to those that have been encountered in the description of (other) TAME-categories as well, and that these may be overcome by applying Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of ‘addressivity’. It concludes that a better understanding of the category of engagement that explores its relation to addressivity may contribute to the development of an approach to grammar in which sociality takes priority, a Dialogic linguistics.
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 04-2015
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 25-03-2019
Abstract: Based on original fieldwork, this paper discusses reported speech and thought constructions in Solega (Dravidian). Following McGregor (1994) we claim that reported speech can only be comprehensively characterised if it is identified as a syntactic construction in its own right, a construction we label a framing construction. In natural discourse, elements of the framing construction, particularly clauses referring to the reporting event, may be left unexpressed. We term framing constructions without a matrix clause ‘defenestrated clauses’. While defenestrated clauses in Solega leave perspective shifts underspecified, they include several distinctive strategies that allow us to reconsider the role of morpho-syntactic marking in the expression of perspective shifts.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 27-05-2019
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 15-04-2020
DOI: 10.1075/FOL.27.1
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 26-11-2019
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 27-05-2019
Abstract: In many languages, expressions of the type ‘x said: “ p ”’, ‘x said that p ’ or ‘allegedly, p ’ share properties with common syntactic types such as constructions with subordination, paratactic constructions, and constructions with sentence-level adverbs. On closer examination, however, they often turn out to be atypical members of these syntactic classes. In this paper we argue that a more coherent picture emerges if we analyse these expressions as a dedicated syntactic domain in itself, which we refer to as ‘reported speech’. Based on typological observations we argue for the idiosyncrasy of reported speech as a syntactic class. The article concludes with a proposal for a cross-linguistic characterisation that aims at capturing this broadly conceived domain of reported speech with a single semantic definition.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 17-06-2015
Abstract: This paper analyses reported speech, thought and epistemic modality in the North Western Australian Aboriginal language Ungarinyin. It demonstrates how these grammatical domains interact in the language to encode multiple perspective meanings. The paper concludes by discussing some implications of the Ungarinyin patterns for expressions of complex perspective elsewhere.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 15-04-2020
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 13-06-2023
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198824978.003.0069
Abstract: The Kimberley region of Western Australia is one of the most linguistically erse areas on the Australian continent, traditionally home to over 40 languages. This chapter introduces the history and sociolinguistic setting of the region and the body of linguistic research on Kimberley languages, which only dates back a little over a century. It surveys the five language families of the Kimberley region, viz. (from West to East) Nyulnyulan, Worrorran, Bunuban, Jarrakan, and Pama-Nyungan, and sketches the main aspects of their verbal, nominal, and morphosyntactic typology. This includes ex les of complex verbs and inflection types, nominal classification and clause types. The chapter concludes with a discussion of speech styles and avoidance language in the Kimberley and highlights several questions for future research.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 06-07-2022
Abstract: In this introduction, we set out the central themes of the special issue. It concentrates on imperfect function-form mappings, and discusses several cases in which specific perspectival meanings are not fully predictable on the basis of a perspectivizing grammatical construction alone. We distinguish two kinds of form-function mismatches: (1) perspective-persistent phenomena, i.e. grammatically signaled deictic and/or cognitive perspective shifts which are not realized in interpretation, and (2) irregular perspective shifts, which involve either grammatically un(der)specified shifts or grammatically signaled shifts that are interpreted as mixing multiple sources of deictic and/or cognitive perspective (‘multiple-perspective constructions’). We briefly discuss and contextualize each of the contributions, and highlight their central findings.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-12-2019
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 13-06-2023
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198824978.003.0030
Abstract: Valency and valency change are central topics in syntactic typology. Based on a genus-based s le of 41 languages, this chapter surveys strategies for signalling valency change across Australian languages, specifically, in causation and applicatives. The chapter starts with a discussion of the broad typological concepts involved and presents a definition of the categories of internal and external causation and applicatives. After introducing the s ling method, it then presents the affixes and multi-word constructions marking causation and applicatives as well as their (geographical) distribution. The chapter concludes that while some languages in the s le treat causatives and applicatives as a dedicated morphosyntactic class, both applicatives and causatives are mixed phenomena in Australian languages. This observation is explained by the suggestion that lexical, functional, syntactic and pragmatic factors play a role in the classification of (pro)nominal clause participants, and that for understanding valency in the respective languages these factors are variably relevant.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 18-10-2016
DOI: 10.1075/HCP.55.13SPR
Start Date: 2011
End Date: 2016
Funder: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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