UC Publications in Linguistics The Twins Stories: Participant Coding in Yagua Narrative
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0520097742
ISBN 13
9780520097742
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Publication Year
1993
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Pages
236
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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.
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