Brazil: The Second World Of Wanano Women - Truth, Lies, And Back-Talk In The Brazilian Northwest Amazon

Brazil: The Second World Of Wanano Women - Truth, Lies, And Back-Talk In The Brazilian Northwest Amazon   Janet M. Chernela, 2011   Speakers of Wanano, an Eastern Tukanoan language, strategically combine the rhetorical dialogic device of reported speech, one type of “voicing,” with choice of a grammatical evidential to indicate a speaker's relationship to the information conveyed, in order to expand available repertoires of knowledge, agency, and responsibility. By complicating the...

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