Narrative structures in cross-linguistic perspective: English, Hobongan, and Daqan
- 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.
Author: | Marla Perkins |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-563862 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v9i5.107 |
ISSN: | 2194-5594 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL |
Publisher: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
Place of publication: | Mainz |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2020 |
Date of first Publication: | 2020/09/25 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/10/15 |
Tag: | Austronesian; Daqan; Hobongan; narrative; narrative structure; typology |
GND Keyword: | Textlinguistik |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 5 |
Page Number: | 24 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 24 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 472979329 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Textlinguistik/Schriftsprache / Text linguistics |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | International journal of literary linguistics |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-483647 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |