Table of Contents

List of figures and tables; Introduction Jane H. Hill and Judith T. Irvine; 1. Intentions, self, and responsibility: an essay in Samoan ethnopragmatics Alessandro Duranti; 2. Meaning without intention: lessons from divination John W. Du Bois; 3. Seneca speaking styles and the location of authority Wallace Chafe; 4. Obligations to the word: ritual speech, performance, and responsibility: verbal abuse in a Wolof village Judith T. Irvine; 6. 'Get outa my face': entitlement and authoritative discouse Amy Shuman; 7. Reported speech and affect on Nukulaelae Atoll Niko Besnier; 8. Disclaimers of performance Richard Bauman; 9. Mrs. Patricio's trouble: the distribution of responsibility in an account of personal experience Jane H. Hill and Ofelia Zepeda; 10. The grammaticalization of responsibility and evidence: interactional manipulation of evidential categories in Newari Edward H. Bendix; 11. Evidentiary standards for American trials: just the facts Susan U. Philips; 12. Recollections of fieldwork conversations, or authorial difficulties in anthropological writing Tullio Maranhão; References; Index of subjects; Index of names.

Reviews

"This book is an exceedingly important contribution to the understanding of the use of rhetorical devices in oral discourse...the volume as a whole gives us a rich, multicultural perspective on the impact of context and interaction in the construction of meaning." The Modern Language Journal "This very cohesive volume will be of particular interest to second language reserchers studying speech acts...All of the articles in this volume provide insights into a wide variety of authentic speech events and speech acts." Susan Fiksdal, Studies in Second Language Acquisitions