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(Inter)subjectivity in interaction: Investigating (inter)subjective meanings in Yurakaré conversational data

(Inter)subjectivity in interaction: Investigating (inter)subjective meanings in Yurakaré... Abstract This paper investigates the interactional uses of the two Yurakaré (isolate, central Bolivia) epistemic modal markers and = ya ‘intersubjective’ and = laba ‘subjective’. While subjective = laba indicates a personal epistemic judgment of the speaker, intersubjective = ya conveys that the speaker expects the addressee to share the expressed epistemic judgment. The distributions of the two markers in interaction are argued to reflect their (inter)subjective meaning components. This demonstrates that conversational data provide important clues for investigating (inter)subjective meanings in language. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png STUF - Language Typology and Universals de Gruyter

(Inter)subjectivity in interaction: Investigating (inter)subjective meanings in Yurakaré conversational data

STUF - Language Typology and Universals , Volume 68 (2) – Jul 1, 2015

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2015 by the
ISSN
1867-8319
eISSN
2196-7148
DOI
10.1515/stuf-2015-0011
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Abstract

Abstract This paper investigates the interactional uses of the two Yurakaré (isolate, central Bolivia) epistemic modal markers and = ya ‘intersubjective’ and = laba ‘subjective’. While subjective = laba indicates a personal epistemic judgment of the speaker, intersubjective = ya conveys that the speaker expects the addressee to share the expressed epistemic judgment. The distributions of the two markers in interaction are argued to reflect their (inter)subjective meaning components. This demonstrates that conversational data provide important clues for investigating (inter)subjective meanings in language.

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STUF - Language Typology and Universalsde Gruyter

Published: Jul 1, 2015

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