TY  - JOUR
A1  - Perkins, Marla
T1  - Narrative structures in cross-linguistic perspective: English, Hobongan, and Daqan
T2  - International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL
N2  - Four main informational elements have been suggested and studied as central aspects of narrative discourse: causality, character, location, time. The research that scholars have previously undertaken on these aspects has been primarily on Indo-European languages, and more specifically on the European side of that language family. The linguistic limitations have indicated that character is the aspect of narrative that readers/listeners attend to most closely. However, in examining narrative discourses from non-Indo-European languages, challenges to the presumed primacy of character emerge. In a partial report on field work conducted in Borneo in 2012-2015, I compare and contrast patterns in the rankings of the four main aspects of narrative in three languages, English, Hobongan and Daqan. I also note the strategies by which the languages make their respective rankings clear, including focus particles (Hobongan), specificity of description (each), and amount of information provided about the aspects (each). I suggest that analyses of the patterns and rankings of information in narrative be included in typological categorizations and linguistic descriptions of languages.
KW  - Textlinguistik
KW  - Austronesian
KW  - Hobongan
KW  - Daqan
KW  - narrative
KW  - narrative structure
KW  - typology
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56386
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-563862
SN  - 2194-5594
VL  - 9
IS  - 5
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
PB  - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
CY  - Mainz
ER  -