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1 online resource (298 pages) |
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Language Culture and Cognition |
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Language, culture, and cognition.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Arandic language region; 1.2 A multimodal approach to communication; 1.3 Sign and gesture in sand stories; 1.4 Tracks and traces: iconicity in sign, sand and gesture; 1.5 Space and frames of reference; 1.6 A multimodal perspective on gradient phenomena; 1.7 Relationships between gesture and speech; 1.8 Outline of the remainder of the book; 2 Sand stories as social and cultural practice; 2.1 Previous documentations of sand stories |
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2.2 Lexical semantics of the term tyepety2.3 Dreamtime, Dreaming and the meanings of Altyerr; 2.4 Sand story styles; 2.5 Techniques and tools; 2.6 Mapping, diagramming and games in Central Australia; 2.7 Sand stories and awely ceremonies; 2.8 The end of the story; 2.9 Concluding comment; 3 Catching a move as it flies: multimodal data collection and annotation; 3.1 Recording naturalistic data in challenging conditions; 3.2 Coding and transcription; 3.3 The 'sand quiz': testing the meaning of V-units; 3.4 Representing multimodal events as transcript; 3.5 Concluding comment; 4 Lines in the sand |
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4.1 Conventionalized ground-ground type V-unitsPlates; 4.2 Visible paths in sand; 4.3 Combinations of static and dynamic elements; 4.4 Motion and multimodality; 4.5 The interpretation of motion in space; 4.6 Innovation and change; 4.7 Concluding comment; 5 Body-anchored and airborne action; 5.1 Previous work on Aboriginal sign languages and gesture in Australia; 5.2 Handsigns in sand stories; 5.3 Pointing in sand stories; 5.4 A tunnel ball game in sand; 5.5 Concluding comment; 6 Ordering, redrawing and erasure; 6.1 V-units and the order of narrative events; 6.2 Erasing the story space |
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6.3 The role of deictic units in transitions between frames7 Vocal style in sand stories; 7.1 'Talking song' and 'singing story'; 7.2 Some features of Arandic songs; 7.3 Doodlebugs and bogeymen: repeated text and borrowed words in a sand story; 7.4 A 'sung' sand story; 7.5 Concluding comment; 8 Crossing boundaries; 8.1 Multimodality, forms and functions in sand stories; 8.2 Alternative representations in sand, sign and gesture; 8.3 Convention or continuously varying forms?; 8.4 Coordination across modalities; 8.5 Verbal art, visual art; 8.6 Inscriptive practices: beyond Central Australia |
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8.7 Concluding commentAppendix 1 Abbreviations, glossing and orthographic conventions; Appendix 2 Summary of six stories annotated in detail; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Provides a multimodal analysis of women's sand stories from Central Australia, showing how speech, sign, gesture and drawing work together |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore
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Storytelling -- Australia -- Central Australia
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Central Australia
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Semiotics and folk literature -- Australia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Aboriginal Australians
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Semiotics and folk literature
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Storytelling
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Women, Aboriginal Australian
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Australia
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Australia -- Central Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107781221 |
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1107781221 |
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