Pub Date: February 15, 1993
Dewey: 498.4
LCCN: 92023632
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.50" H x 10.00" L x 7.00" W ( 0.92 lbs) 236 pages
BISAC Categories:
Language Study | Indigenous Languages in the Americas | Language Arts and Disciplines | Linguistics | General | Literary Criticism | Semiotics and Theory | Social Science | Native American Studies
Series: Uc Publications in Linguistics
Description: 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.