03342oam 2200385 u 450 991097825190332120221017113449.010.33063/0nppmh29(NjHacI)998297950603831(CKB)8297950603831(EXLCZ)99829795060383120221017d2017 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNarrative structure of Wakhi oral stories /Jaroslava ObrtelováUppsala Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis2017Uppsala :Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis,2017.250 pStudia Iranica Upsaliensia,1100-326X ;32978-91-513-0150-1 The Wakhi people live in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Their original homeland is situated in the Wakhan Corridor in the Badakhshan region, and is divided by the border between southeast Tajikistan and nordeast Afghanistan. They also inhabit the mountainous areas in northern Pakistan and western China. The Wakhi language belongs to the Pamir sub-group of Eastern Iranian languages and is spoken by about 58,000 people in the above-mentioned four countries. The discourse of Wakhi as spoken in Tajikistan has not yet been the subject of analysis. This study is an attempt to identify the features of the fundamental narrative structure of Wakhi oral stories. The analysis of narrative genres recorded in the Wakhan valley in Tajikistan is based on Labov & Waletzky's (1967) and Labov's (1972 and 1997) models. The first part examines the properties of temporal sequence and narrative clauses, and concludes that two sets of narrative tense-aspect forms are found throughout Wakhi oral narratives: simple past tense for eyewitness accounts, and non-past alternating with perfect for non-eyewitness narratives. In the second part, the overall structure of the Wakhi oral narrative is examined, to define the properties of each of the narrative stages (abstract, orientation, complicating action, evaluation, resolution, and coda) and of the transitions between them. A separate chapter is dedicated to evaluation, which may be present explicitly, as a comment made by the narrator by stepping out of the narrative frame, or as part of the narrative frame, either embedded in direct speech or expressed implicitly using a range of internal evaluative devices. The final part starts a discussion on further aspects of narrative as presented by Labov (1997), namely reportability, credibility, causality, the assignment of praise and blame, and objectivity, that can direct possible future research beyond the narrative frame and into areas of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The study is complemented by a corpus of twenty-one transcribed, glossed, and translated Wakhi stories, representing various narratives genres described in the study.Studia Iranica Upsaliensia,1100-326X ;12.Narrative theologyNarrative theology.230Obrtelova Jaroslava1850576NjHacINjHacl9910978251903321Narrative structure of Wakhi oral stories4443704UNINAJönköping University