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Epistemic authority and sociolinguistic stance in an Australian Aboriginal language by John Mansfield is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Abstract Murrinhpatha, an Aboriginal language of northern Australia, has an initialk-alternation in verbs that has hitherto been resistant to grammatical analysis. I argue thatk-does not encode any feature of event structure, but rather signals the speaker’s epistemic primacy over the addressee. This authority may relate to concrete perceptual factors in the field of discourse, or to socially normative authority, where it asserts the speaker’s epistemic rights. These rights are most salient in the domains of kin, country and totems, as opposed to other topics in which speakers are habitually circumspect and co-construct knowledge. My analysis of thek-alternation thus brings together the typology of epistemic grammar (Evans, Bergqvist, & San Roque, 2018a, 2018b), and a sociolinguistic perspective on stance (Jaffe, 2009).
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- Author
- John Mansfield
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)