Speaking the map : Komnzo texts / Christian Döhler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Döhler, Christian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral history.

Storytelling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press, 2024.

Summary:

This collection of fourteen texts in Komnzo offers an insight into the language and culture of the Farem people, their storytelling tradition, oral history, mythology and everyday life. It contains stories from nine narrators, which were transcribed, translated and analysed by the researcher with the help of the Komnzo language committee. All texts are presented in a parallel text version arranged in columns (Komnzo/English) and in an interlinearised and glossed version. The book focuses thematically on landscape, place names and locality. It includes a description and analysis of the way Komnzo speakers conceptualise this semantic domain.

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