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Title Native South American discourse / edited by Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©1986

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
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Subject Indians of South America -- Languages -- Discourse analysis -- Congresses
Indians of South America -- Languages -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Indians -- Languages -- Social aspects -- South America -- Congresses
Indians of South America -- Languages -- Discourse analysis -- Congresses
18.91 American Indian languages.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
Indians -- Languages -- Social aspects
Indians of South America -- Languages -- Discourse analysis
Indians of South America -- Languages -- Social aspects
Indianersprachen
Sprachgebrauch
Indianentalen.
Discourse analysis.
Verteltheorie.
South America
Südamerika
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Congresses (form)
Form Electronic book
Author Sherzer, Joel
Urban, Greg, 1949-
University of Texas at Austin. Institute of Latin American Studies
LC no. 86012488
ISBN 9783110858129
3110858126