Book: Functional Dimensions of Ape-Human Discourse
Chapter: The interpersonal dimension: confrontation and support in bonobo-human discourse
Blurb:
As part of a program to explore the communicative abilities of bonobo apes within the human-ape culture at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University, this chapter offers two complementary analyses of a conversation between Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Kanzi. Both a conversation analysis and a lexicogrammatical analysis of their interaction are provided.