This paper analyses a set of exchanges between members of Australia’s Indigenous Western Desert culture, in the Pitjantjatjara dialect of the Western Desert language. The analyses are designed to illustrate how social relations in the culture are enacted with resources for interpersonal meaning in the language. The paper begins with a brief overview of social and linguistic theory underpinning the analyses. This is followed by a survey of Pitjantjatjara language resources for structuring exchanges, and for realising exchange moves in the grammar of clauses and the tones on which they are spoken. An overview of the Western Desert kinship system is then followed by analyses of five extended exchanges, that show how these resources are deployed to enact various types of kin relations. They illustrate some of the elaborate ways that Western Desert speakers negotiate their relationships and social goals, within the framework of their community’s kinship traditions.

中文翻译：

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姐姐，我要告诉你吗？

本文分析了澳大利亚土著西部沙漠文化成员之间的一系列交流，使用西部沙漠语言的 Pitjantjatjara 方言。这些分析旨在说明文化中的社会关系如何与语言中的人际意义资源一起制定。本文首先简要概述了支持分析的社会和语言理论。接下来是对 Pitjantjatjara 语言资源的调查，用于构建交换，并在从句的语法和使用的语气中实现交换动作。然后对西部沙漠亲属制度进行概述，然后分析五个扩展的交流，展示如何部署这些资源来制定各种类型的亲属关系。