Directives, Moral Authority, and Deontic Stance-Taking in Sakapultek Maya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5031999 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Shoaps (corresponding author), Robin Ann Shoaps |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-70 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5483 • E-ISSN: 1944-6527 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anl.2017.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2783522813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Directives are the primary grammatical resource in Sakapultek for speakers' self-positioning with regard to notions of necessity, obligation, and responsibility. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of naturally occurring talk, I argue that such deontic stances require grounding in a locus of moral authority and index idealized relationship types among participants in a communicative event; distinguishing the multiplicity of Sakapultek directive forms in these terms is more illuminating than analyzing them in terms of directness or politeness. I suggest that the stances offered by the various directive forms are grounded in relative degree of egocentric or "subjectively" grounded moral authority
Deontic logic · Directive · Epistemology · Ethnography · Formality · Linguistics · Obligation · Politeness · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |