Hopi narratives

[jgatewoo at email.arizona.edu]

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:08:41 -0700
>From: jgatewoo at email.arizona.edu
>Subject: R: Hopi narratives
>To: info-childes at email.talkbank.org
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>
>My name is Janet Gatewood and I am a graduate student in the speech language
>pathology program at the Univ of Arizona.  I am currently working on my
>thesis which is focused on the question of how Hopi children's narratives
>differ from that of mainstream children. My data includes four Hopi mother-child
>dyads who provided 3 narratives (one from the mother and two from
>the child)which are based on the frog stories used in other studies. The
>dyads are from different regions of Arizona including the Hopi reservation
>and the Tucson area. Thus far, I have transcribed the children's narratives
>and
>using Stein and Glenn's story grammar components I have analyzed the story
>structure of each narrative. Microstructure analysis includes coding for
>lexical devices such as adverb  phrases, adjective phrases, various clauses,
>and connectives. I also thought it would be interesting to account for "contextualization
>processes" by using the narrative assessment checklist recommended by Gutierrez-Clellen
>& Quinn.
>
>I am at a point in which I feel it necessary to ask for suggestions in ways
>that I can analyze this data, perhaps to establish/solidify a cultural
>connection. I have considered using elements of Hopi lullabies (studied
>by Kathleen Sands and Emory Sekaquaptewa) to demonstrate cultural ties and
>possibly explain differences in uses of specific lexical devices apparent
>in the
>narratives. Again, I am open to any suggestions that will help me analyze
>my data so please direct your response to jgatewoo at email.arizona.edu .
>Thank you for your attention in this matter.
>
>Janet Gatewood
>
>