In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent
linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility',
'authority', and 'knowledge': central, but problematic, concepts in
contemporary anthropology. Their detailed case studies analyze
diverse forms of oral discourse - everyday conversation,
conversational narrative, song, oratory, divination, and ritual
poetry - in societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the
Pacific. The studies show how speakers attribute responsibility for
acts and states of affairs, how particular forms of language and
discourse relate to claims and disclaimers of responsibility, and
how verbal acts are themselves social acts, subject to such
attributions. The volume challenges those cognitive theorists who
locate responsibility for the meaning of verbal acts solely in the
intentions of individual speakers. Instead, the contributors focus
on the production of meaning between speakers and audiences in
particular social and cultural contexts, through dialogue and
interaction which mediate between linguistic forms and their
interpretations. This landmark volume will serve for years to come
as a point of reference in the study, not only of responsibility
and evidence, but of reported speech, authorship, and other
phenomena in the social life of language. Besides linguistic and
cultural anthropologists, linguistics, and folklorists, it will
interest also readers from pragmatics, legal studies, sociology,
religion, and social psychology.
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