The Twins Stories: Participant Coding in Yapuga Narrativevolume 120

ISBN-13: 9780520097742 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 236 str.

Thomas Edward Payne

Opis

This work is a quantitative discourse study of referential devices in Yagua, a relatively unstudied language of the Amazon basin. Of particular interest are folktales in which the major participants are matched pairs, and which involve extensive use of direct speech. A major finding is that the indices of "Referential Distance" and "Persistence" quantify distinct functional domains.