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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 Maranhao References Index of subjects Index of names.
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