Native South American Discourse, w. cassette

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Joel, Sherzer / -- 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 Expression: Wailing, Collective Singing, and Political Oratory / Laura, Graham -- Quoted Dialogues in Kalapalo Narrative Discourse / Ellen, Basso -- The Report of a Kuna Curing Specialist: The Poetics and Rhetoric of an Oral Performance / Joel, Sherzer -- Styles of Toba Discourse / Harriet, Klein -- Topic Continuity and OVS Order in Hixkaryana / Desmond C., Derbyshire -- The Decline of Dialogue: Ceremonial and Mythological Discourse among the Shuar and Achuar of Eastern Ecuador / Maurizio, Gnerre -- Guide to Tape Selections -- Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Joel Sherzer (Editor), Greg Urban (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1986
• EAN: 9783110105117
• ISBN: 978-3-11-010511-7
• No. of pages: 347
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 30 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 692 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics