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1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction / Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban -- Semiotic functions of macro-parallelism in the Shokleng origin myth / Greg Urban -- Oratory is spoken, myth is told, and song is sung, but they are all music to my ears / Anthony Seeger -- Three modes of Shavante vocal expressions : wailing, collective singing, and political oratory / Laura Graham -- Quoted dialogues in Kalapalo narrative discourse / Ellen Basso -- Report of a Kuna curing specialist : the poetics and rhetoric of an oral performance / Joel Sherzer -- Styles of Toba discourse / Harriet Klein -- Topic continutity and OVS order in Hixkaryana / Desmond C. Derbyshire -- Decline of dialogue : ceremonial and mythological discourse among the Shuar and Achuar of eastern Ecuador / Maurizio Gnerre |
| Summary |
Introduction / Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban -- Semiotic functions of macro-parallelism in the Shokleng origin myth / Greg Urban -- Oratory is spoken, myth is told, and song is sung, but they are all music to my ears / Anthony Seeger -- Three modes of Shavante vocal expressions : wailing, collective singing, and political oratory / Laura Graham -- Quoted dialogues in Kalapalo narrative discourse / Ellen Basso -- Report of a Kuna curing specialist : the poetics and rhetoric of an oral performance / Joel Sherzer -- Styles of Toba discourse / Harriet Klein -- Topic continutity and OVS order |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Discourse analysis -- Congresses
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Indians -- Languages -- Social aspects -- South America -- Congresses
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
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Indians -- Languages -- Social aspects.
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Discourse analysis.
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Social aspects.
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Indianentalen.
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Discourse analysis.
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Verteltheorie.
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South America.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sherzer, Joel
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Urban, Greg, 1949-
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University of Texas at Austin. Institute of Latin American Studies.
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| ISBN |
9783110858129 |
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3110858126 |
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