Increments in Navajo Conversation  

Oleh:

Field, Margaret

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association vol. 17 no. 4 (2007), page 637-646.
Topik: American Indian Interaction; American Indian Discourse; Navajo; American Indian pragmatics
Fulltext: 567-901-1-PB.pdf (205.83KB)

Isi artikel

This paper examines the use of increments (Schegloff 1996, Ford et al. 2002) in naturally occurring Navajo discourse (conversation.) Navajo is a polysynthetic verb-final language belonging to the Athabascan family, spoken in the American Southwest. It finds that Navajo increments, specifically glue-ons (Couper-Kuhlen & Ono this volume) appear in the form of temporal or locative adverbial phrases as well as unattached NPs, as is the case in English and other languages. However, Navajo increments do not appear to serve two functions suggested by Ford et al.(2002) for increments in English: pursuing uptake in the case of lack of recipiency, and the indexing of a stance display toward the speakers own previous utterance. This is not surprising given other cultural differences in Athabaskan interaction which revolve around a value on individual autonomy, with important consequences for language use.

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