Native South American Discourse /

Native South American Discourse / / ed. by Greg Urban, Joel Sherzer.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
MitwirkendeR:
Anthony, Seeger,
Desmond C., Derbyshire,
Ellen, Basso,
Greg, Urban,
Harriet, Klein,
Joel, Sherzer,
Laura, Graham,
Maurizio, Gnerre,
HerausgeberIn:
Sherzer, Joel,
Urban, Greg,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©1986
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (347 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-VIII
  • Introduction
  • Semiotic Functions of Macro-parallelism in the Shokleng Origin Myth
  • Oratory Is Spoken, Myth Is Told, and Song Is Sung, but They Are All Music to My Ears
  • Three Modes of Shavante Vocal Expression: Wailing, Collective Singing, and Political Oratory
  • Quoted Dialogues in Kalapalo Narrative Discourse
  • The Report of a Kuna Curing Specialist: The Poetics and Rhetoric of an Oral Performance
  • Styles of Toba Discourse
  • Topic Continuity and OVS Order in Hixkaryana
  • The Decline of Dialogue: Ceremonial and Mythological Discourse among the Shuar and Achuar of Eastern Ecuador
  • Guide to Tape Selections
  • Index

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