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Drawn from the ground : sound, sign and inscription in Central Australian sand stories / Jennifer Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Jennifer, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Language, culture, and cognition ; 13.
- Language, culture, and cognition ; 13
- Language:
- Australian languages
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Folklore.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Storytelling--Australia--Central Australia.
- Storytelling.
- Women, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Central Australia.
- Women, Aboriginal Australian.
- Semiotics and folk literature--Australia.
- Semiotics and folk literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects may be used to represent story characters. This detailed study of Arandic sand stories takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together. This richly illustrated volume is essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication. It adds to the growing recognition that language encompasses much more than speech alone, and shows how important it is to consider the different semiotic resources a culture brings to its communicative tasks as an integrated whole rather than in isolation.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sand stories as social and cultural practice
- 3. Catching a move as it flies: multimodal data collection
- 4. Lines in the sand
- 5. Body-anchored and airborne action
- 6. Ordering, redrawing and erasure
- 7. Vocal style in sand stories
- 8. Crossing boundaries.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-77695-3
- 1-107-77945-6
- 1-107-77871-9
- 1-139-23710-1
- 1-107-77998-7
- 1-107-78488-3
- 1-107-78122-1
- 1-107-78442-5
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