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Celebrating Indigenous Voice

Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci, Pema Wangdi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

VIII, 339 Seiten

2023
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-078977-5 (ISBN)

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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 narrative genres and structures. It focusses on linguistic and cultural facets of the narratives in the areas of linguistic diversity across the tropics and surrounding areas — New Guinea, Northern Australia, Siberia, and also the Tibeto-Burman region. The introduction brings together the recurrent themes in the grammar and the substance of the narratives. The twelve contributions to the volume address grammatical forms and categories deployed in organizing the narrative and interweaving the protagonists and the narrator. These include quotations, person of the narrator and the protagonist, mirativity, demonstratives, and clause chaining. The contributors also address the kinds of narratives told, their organization and evolution in time and space, under the impact of post-colonial experience and new means of communication via social media. The volume highlights the importance of documenting narrative tradition across indigenous languages.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, CQUniversity; Robert Bradshaw and Pema Wangdi, James Cook University; Luca Ciucci, Cairns Institute.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Anthropological Linguistics [AL] ; 5
Zusatzinfo	6 b/w and 2 col. ill., 31 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Schlagworte	Clause Chaining • Mirativity • Narratives • Quotations
ISBN-10	3-11-078977-9 / 3110789779
ISBN-13	978-3-11-078977-5 / 9783110789775
Zustand	Neuware