Celebrating Indigenous Voice - Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Anthropological Linguistics [AL]
Release date:	2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald • Robert L Bradshaw • Luca Ciucci • Pema Wangdi
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	347
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-078977-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	3-11-078977-9
Barcode:	9783110789775

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