Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea : : psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults / / Gunter Senft.
This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate whi...
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| Superior document: | Culture and Language Use, Volume 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, [The Netherlands] ;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and language use ;
Volume 16. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories, but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization and other narrative strategies, how they develop them and how they use them to structure these texts in an adult-like way. The tales are pre |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027268266 |
| ISSN: | 1879-5838 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Gunter Senft. |