Culture, Interaction and Person Referencein an Australian Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- In Memoriam -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and orthographic conventions -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and orthographic conventions -- Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Linguistic anthropology -- 1.3 The indeterminacy of reference -- 1.4 Bininj Gunwok, dialects and location. -- 1.5 Eastern Bininj Gunwok in brief geographical and historical context -- 1.6 Synopsis -- Bininj Gunwok Kinship Systems -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Moieties, subsections and other social categories -- 2.3 Subsections in Bininj Gunwok -- 2.4 Bininj Gunwok basic kin terms -- 2.5 Arguments about Bininj Gunwok kinship -- 2.6 Generation skewing -- 2.7 Ceremonial moieties -- 2.8 Concluding remarks -- Ways of referring to people in Bininj Gunwok -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Diversity in person reference -- 3.3 Basic kin terms -- 3.4 Other types of non-vocative terms -- 3.5 Dyadic terms -- 3.6 Kinship verbs -- 3.6.1 Successive generation patrilineal and matrilineal kin, bornang, yawmang -- 3.6.2 Semantics of kinship verbs -- 3.6.3 Other kinship verb expressions -- 3.7 Other forms of person reference -- 3.7.1 Reference by subsection -- 3.7.2 Use of clan names in reference -- 3.7.3 Cross-sex sibling reference -- 3.7.4 Reference to the deceased -- 3.7.5 Reference by matrilineal phratry terms -- 3.7.6 Nicknames -- 3.8 Some concluding comments -- The kun-debi system of triadic kinship reference -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Triadic kinship systems in other languages -- 4.3 Deficiencies of the triangle analogy -- 4.4 Centricity -- 4.4.1 Centricity type -- 4.4.1.1 Egocentric terms -- 4.4.1.2 Tucentric terms -- 4.4.1.3 Tucentric dyad -- 4.4.1.4 Dicentric terms -- 4.4.1.5 'Isosceles' terms -- 4.4.1.6 Acentric terms.

4.4.1.7 Equilateral terms -- 4.4.2 centricity encoding -- 4.4.3 centricity stability -- 4.5 Linguistic form and semantics of kun-debi terms -- 4.5.1 na-karrng/ngal-karrng -- 4.5.2 na-kiwalak/ngal-kiwalak -- 4.5.3 -dadjkawarre -- 4.5.4 pronouns and kun-kurrng register as kun-debi -- 4.5.5 Kun-debi and neutralization -- 4.6 Predicting centricity -- 4.6.1 The juniority-seniority principle -- 4.6.2 The markedness of certain affinal kin -- 4.7 Kun-debi and indeterminacy -- 4.8 Learning Kun-debi -- 4.9 Concluding comments -- Reference, grammar and indeterminacy in Bininj Gunwok conversation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Person reference, reference tracking and semantic generality -- 5.2.1 Some grammatical background -- 5.2.2 Theorizing a 'preference for use of the implicit over the explicit' -- 5.3 Background local knowledge and inferring the identity of underspecified referents- some examples -- 5.4 Generic and impersonal uses of some verbal participant prefixes -- 5.5 Concluding comments -- Culture, reference and circumspection -- 6.1 The language of ceremony and esoteric knowledge -- 6.2 Circumspect language and kinship relationships characterised by restraint -- 6.3 The circumspect nature of requests -- 6.4 Joking -- 6.5 Concluding comments -- The path of inference -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 A story about hunting kangaroos -- 7.2.1 Background -- 7.2.2 Episode 1. First mentions - clans names and place names -- 7.2.3 Episodes 2 & 3 - Kun-derbi and basic kin terms -- 7.2.4 Episode 4- Kun-derbi and nicknames -- 7.2.5 Episode 5- Ceremonial names and basic kin terms -- 7.2.6 Episode 6: Multiple referring expressions -- 7.2.7 Episode 7: Referring expressions in interactive competition -- 7.3 Telephone conversations -- 7.4 Other kinds of refusal to upgrade recognitional expressions -- 7.5 Concluding comments -- The trouble with Wamud -- 8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Introducing the problem referent (lines 1-16) -- 8.3 Recognition via linking kin -- 8.3.1 Link number 1 -- 8.3.2 Link number 2 - establishing common ground -- 8.3.3 Other linking kin -- 8.3.4 Linking kin - circumspect and associative reference -- 8.4 Conclusion- recognition is not always essential to 'fruitful' reference -- Person reference -- 9.1 In summary -- 9.2 Bininj Gunwok person reference and theories of communication -- 9.2.1 Recognitional demonstratives -- 9.2.2 Pronouns in switch reference -- 9.3 Some general comments about circumspection -- 9.4 A preference for the implicit as a form of verbal art -- Language index -- Subject index.