Celebrating Indigenous Voice : : Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond /

Celebrating Indigenous Voice : : Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond / / ed. by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci, Pema Wangdi.

Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and cultural diversity, and the ways in which cultural changes and new means of communication affect narrati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.,
Bradshaw, Robert L.,
Dixon, R. M. W.,
Evans, Nicholas,
Henry, Rosita,
Holz, Christoph,
Hyslop, Gwendolyn,
Mansfield, John,
Merlan, Francesca,
Rumsey, Alan,
Sarvasy, Hannah S.,
Skribnik, Elena,
Wangdi, Pema,
Wood, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.,
Bradshaw, Robert L.,
Ciucci, Luca,
Wangdi, Pema,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Anthropological Linguistics [AL] , 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 339 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1 Introduction. Legends and narratives in language and culture
  • 2 First person orientation in Yidiñ narratives and its implications
  • 3 The sound of one quotation mark: Quoted speech in Indigenous Australian narrative
  • 4 A medial clause does it all: Coherence, continuity, and addressee involvement in Manambu
  • 5 Contact-induced clause-linking changes in Doromu-Koki: New genres, new strategies
  • 6 Verbatim narrative prompting to children in Nungon
  • 7 Adjoining clauses in Brokpa narratives
  • 8 Discourse functions of ‘visible’ and ‘nonvisible’ demonstratives in Tiang (New Ireland) and in a cross-linguistic perspective
  • 9 Miratives and magic: On “newness” as iconic grammar in Kurtöp narratives
  • 10 Reading Siberian folklore: Miratives, pre-mirative contexts and “Hero’s Journey”
  • 11 Jawoyn trickster stories of Southern Arnhem Land
  • 12 Narratives of self and other: Auto/ biography in Papua New Guinea
  • 13 The origin of death in Kamula futures
  • About the contributors
  • Index of authors
  • Index of languages and language families
  • Index of subjects

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