Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea : psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults /

This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate whi...

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Other Authors:	Senft, Gunter, 1952- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Series:	Culture and language use ; 16.
Subjects:	Discourse analysis, Narrative > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands. Context (Linguistics) Language and culture > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands. Learning, Psychology of. Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Psycholinguistics > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands. Anthropological linguistics > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands. Discours narratif > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Trobriand, Îles. Contexte. Langage et culture > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Trobriand, Îles. Psychologie de l'apprentissage. Trobriand, Îles (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) Psycholinguistique > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Trobriand, Îles. Ethnolinguistique > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Trobriand, Îles. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture. Anthropological linguistics Discourse analysis, Narrative Language and culture Learning, Psychology of Psycholinguistics Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands Antropological linguistics Austronesian languages Linguistics Anthropology Electronic books.
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Summary:	This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories, but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization and other narrative strategies, how they develop them and how they use them to structure these texts in an adult-like way. The tales are presented in morpheme-interlinear transcriptions with first textlinguistic analyses and cultural background information necessary to fully understand them. A summarizing comparative analysis of the texts from a psycholinguistic, anthropological linguistic and philological point of view discusses the underlying schemata of the stories, the means narrators use to structure them, their structural complexity and their cultural specificity.
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789027268266 9027268266 9027244537 9789027244536
ISSN:	1879-5838 ;
DOI:	10.1075/clu.16