Celebrating indigenous voice : legends and narratives in languages of the tropics and beyond / edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci and Pema Wangdi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna), editor.

Bradshaw, Robert L., editor.

Ciucci, Luca, editor.

Pema Wangdi, editor.

Series:

Anthropological linguistics.

Anthropological linguistics, 2701987X ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Languages.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

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 "ations, 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.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

1 Introduction. Legends and narratives in language and culture

2 First person orientation in Yidiñ narratives and its implications

3 The sound of one quotation mark: Quoted speech in Indigenous Australian narrative

4 A medial clause does it all: Coherence, continuity, and addressee involvement in Manambu

5 Contact-induced clause-linking changes in Doromu-Koki: New genres, new strategies

6 Verbatim narrative prompting to children in Nungon

7 Adjoining clauses in Brokpa narratives

8 Discourse functions of 'visible' and 'nonvisible' demonstratives in Tiang (New Ireland) and in a cross-linguistic perspective

9 Miratives and magic: On "newness" as iconic grammar in Kurtöp narratives

10 Reading Siberian folklore: Miratives, pre-mirative contexts and "Hero's Journey"

11 Jawoyn trickster stories of Southern Arnhem Land

12 Narratives of self and other: Auto/ biography in Papua New Guinea

13 The origin of death in Kamula futures

About the contributors

Index of authors

Index of languages and language families

Index of subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-11-078983-3

OCLC:

1368054334