Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman - Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Janis B. Nuckolls is an associate professor at Brigham Young University and an anthropological linguist with many years of field experience, primarily in Amazonian Ecuador. In addition to many journal articles, she is the author of Sounds like Life: Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua. Klappentext Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman from Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers. Zusammenfassung Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman from Ecuador! Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony! dialogue! and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers.

Product details

• Authors: Janis B Nuckolls, Janis B. Nuckolls
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2010
• EAN: 9780816528585
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-2858-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics