Autoridad epistémica y atenuación en Tena Kichwa : Análisis de enclítico =cha basado en el corpus
Este artículo se enfoca en la relación entre atenuación y falta de autoridad epistémica. Los datos analizados en el artículo provienen de tena kichwa, una lengua quechua en peligro de extinción, hablada en la Amazonia Ecuatoriana. La lengua posee un paradigma de marcadores que son cognados de los marcadores evidenciales en otras lenguas quechuas, pero que en tena kichwa se relacionan con la autoridad epistémica: ‘el derecho del hablante a saber o sostener algo’ (Stivers et al. 2011).El artículo describe la semántica de los dos marcadores de autoridad epistémica en tena kichwa: =mi y =cha. Se concentra sobre todo en los efectos de atenuación que se pueden lograr a través del uso de =cha. Pr…
Building Trust on Zoom: A Workflow for Language Documentation via Videoconferencing Software
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the capacity to conduct linguistic fieldwork in person. For many fieldworkers, this meant they needed to adapt, and do so urgently. This paper discusses a language documentation workflow based entirely on the online conferencing software Zoom, in which a linguist, external to the community, establishes a new project together with a native-speaker community member. The paper describes how such a working relationship can be built online, and accounts for all the steps of the authors' Zoom-mediated workflow in detail allowing for their replication. It also offers a critical appraisal of this workflow from the perspectives of both the native speaker and the resear…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Using discourse markers to negotiate epistemic stance: A view from situated language use
Abstract In this paper, I analyse the usage of a discourse marker =mari, belonging to the epistemic paradigm attested in Upper Napo Kichwa (Quechuan, Ecuador). I show that the use of =mari indicates that the information is known well to the speaker, but also to some extent familiar to the addressee. In situated language use, the marker contributes to creating a knowing epistemic stance of the speaker. The analysis presented here is based on a 13-h documentary corpus of interactive Upper Napo Kichwa discourse, recorded on audio and video. For the purpose of the paper, the relevant utterances are analysed in their broad interactional context, including not only the surrounding text, but also …