[An-lang] Pacific Linguistics: recent publication

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

Deixis and demonstratives in Oceanic languages
Gunter Senft, editor


This works is described below.

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently
equivalent to about US$ 0.77).
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Deixis and demonstratives in Oceanic languages

Gunter Senft, editor

PL 562

When we communicate, we communicate in a certain context, and this
context shapes our utterances.  Natural languages are context-bound 
and deixis ‘concerns the ways in which languages encode or
grammaticalise features of the context of utterance or speech event,
and thus also concerns ways in which the interpretation of utterances
depends on the analysis of that context of utterance’ (Stephen
Levinson).

The systems of deixis and demonstratives in the Oceanic languages
represented in the contributions to this volume illustrate the
fascinating complexity of spatial reference in these languages.  Some
of the studies presented here highlight social aspects of deictic
reference  illustrating de Leon’s point that ‘reference is a
collaborative task’ .  It is hoped that this anthology will contribute
to a better understanding of this area and provoke further studies in
this extremely interesting, though still rather underdeveloped,
research area.

2004ISBN 0 85883 551 7vii + 204 pp

Prices: Australia AUD$54.00 (incl. GST)

Overseas AUD$59.40
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