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Evidentiality: Authority, Responsibility, and Entitlement in English Conversation
Author(s) -
Fox Barbara A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1525/jlin.2001.11.2.167
Subject(s) - conversation , entitlement (fair division) , evidentiality , utterance , linguistics , context (archaeology) , conversation analysis , psychology , sociology , social psychology , computer science , philosophy , history , computer network , archaeology
The present study explores the use of evidential markers in English conversation. It seeks to provide evidence that evidential marking in English conversation indexes social meanings and, hence, is sensitive to the relationship between speaker and recipients) and/in a particular context of utterance; and it seeks to demonstrate that it is the social meanings of authority, responsibility, and entitlement that are indexed by evidential marking in English conversation.