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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153562803321

Autore

Senft Gunter

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [The Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-272-6826-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Culture and Language Use, , 1879-5838 ; ; Volume 16

Disciplina

306.442/995

Soggetti

Discourse analysis, Narrative - Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands

Context (Linguistics) - Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands

Language and culture - Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands

Learning, Psychology of - Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands

Electronic books.

Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 pre