Celebrating Indigenous Voice: Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2023

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

Volume 5 in the series Anthropological Linguistics [AL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789836

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About this book

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.

Author information

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

Supplementary Materials

Sound files to chapter 3

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
1 Introduction. Legends and narratives in language and culture Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 First person orientation in Yidiñ narratives and its implications R. M. W. Dixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3 The sound of one quotation mark: Quoted speech in Indigenous Australian narrative Alan Rumsey, John Mansfield and Nicholas Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 A medial clause does it all: Coherence, continuity, and addressee involvement in Manambu Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5 Contact-induced clause-linking changes in Doromu-Koki: New genres, new strategies Robert L. Bradshaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6 Verbatim narrative prompting to children in Nungon Hannah S. Sarvasy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7 Adjoining clauses in Brokpa narratives Pema Wangdi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
8 Discourse functions of ‘visible’ and ‘nonvisible’ demonstratives in Tiang (New Ireland) and in a cross-linguistic perspective Christoph Holz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
9 Miratives and magic: On “newness” as iconic grammar in Kurtöp narratives Gwendolyn Hyslop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
10 Reading Siberian folklore: Miratives, pre-mirative contexts and “Hero’s Journey” Elena Skribnik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
11 Jawoyn trickster stories of Southern Arnhem Land Francesca Merlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
12 Narratives of self and other: Auto/ biography in Papua New Guinea Rosita Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
13 The origin of death in Kamula futures Michael Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
About the contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Index of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Index of languages and language families Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers in Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Typology, Anthropological Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 339
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
- Tables: 31
Keywords: Narratives; Clause Chaining; Mirativity; Quotations

eBook

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110789836

Hardcover

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110789775