Murray Garde

List of John Benjamins publications in which Murray Garde is involved.

Title

Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language: An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication

Murray Garde

The study of person reference stands at the cross-roads of linguistics, anthropology and psychology. As one aspect of an ethnography of communication, this book deals with a single problem — how one knows who is being talked about in conversation — from a rich and varied ethnographic perspective.… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 11] 2013. xx, 274 pp.

Articles

Garde, Murray 2015 ‘Stories of long ago’ and the forces of modernity in South Pentecost Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands, Gounder, Farzana (ed.), pp. 135–153 | Article

In the Sa language of southern Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, mythical narratives are known as dun. Notions of authenticity in the telling of dun engender debates about the status of competing versions and the links between dun and place. A current example I examine is the annual gol ‘land diving… read more

Garde, Murray 2014 Shifting relations: Structure and agency in the language of Bininj Gunwok kinship Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 361–382 | Article

This chapter examines the connections between shared cultural knowledge about kinship structure and the pragmatic inferences that enable interlocutors to assess each other’s (multiple) perspectives. By drawing on Bininj Gunwok conversational data this chapter shows how linguistic choices are… read more

Garde, Murray 2008 Person reference, proper names and circumspection in Bininj Kunwok conversation Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages, Mushin, Ilana and Brett Baker (eds.), pp. 203–232 | Article

Proper names in Bininj Kunwok are one of a number of unmarked referring expressions in contexts of high social familiarity. In most other contexts and especially where culturally motivated circumspection is required, names are avoided in favour of a range of other referring expressions. The… read more