Questions and responses in ?Akhoe Hai||om  

Oleh:

Hoymann, Gertie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 42 no. 10 (Oct. 2010), page 2726–2740.
Topik: Khoisan ?Akhoe Hai||om Interrogative Hunter-gatherer Natural conversation
Fulltext: Hoymann_G.pdf (446.45KB)

Isi artikel

This paper examines ?Akhoe Hai||om, a Khoe language of the Khoisan family spoken in Northern Namibia. I document the way questions are posed in natural conversation, the actions the questions are used for and the manner in which they are responded to. I show that in this language speakers rely most heavily on content questions. I also find that speakers of ?Akhoe Hai||om address fewer questions to a specific individual than would be expected from prior research on Indo European languages. Finally, I discuss some possible explanations for these findings

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