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Title Native American discourse : poetics and rhetoric / edited by Joel Sherzer and Anthony C. Woodbury
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Description x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; 13
Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; 13
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction Joel Sherzer and Anthony C. Woodbury; 2. Tonkawa poetics: John Rush buffalo's 'Coyote and Eagle's daughter' Dell Hymes; 3. Warm Springs Sahaptin narrative analysis Virginia Hymes; 4. Poetic structuring of Kuna discouse: the line Joel Sherzer; 5. Hearing a voice in an ancient test: Quiche; Maya poetics in performance Dennis Tedlock; 6. Rhetorical structure in a Central Alaskan Yupik Eskimo traditional narrative Anthony C. Woodbury; Indices
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and indexes
Subject Folk literature, Indian -- History and criticism.
Indian literature -- History and criticism.
Indians of Central America -- Languages -- Discourse analysis.
Indians of North America -- Languages -- Discourse analysis.
Indians -- Languages -- Discourse analysis.
Author Sherzer, Joel.
Woodbury, Anthony C.
LC no. 86028382
ISBN 0521329361