From Conversation to Oral Tradition: A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions

ISBN-13: 9781138499164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 214 str.

Raymond F. Person

Opis

This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. Conversation 2. Storytelling in Talk-In-Interaction 3. Traditional Phraseology and Turn Construction 4. Theme and Sequence Organization 5. Openings and Closings 6. Restarts and Their So-Called "Literary" Adaptations 7. Repair in Conversation and Oral Traditions. Conclusion: From Grammar to Special Grammar; From Conversation to the Institutional Talk of Oral Traditions

O autorze

Raymond F. Person, Jr. is Professor of Religion at Ohio Northern University.