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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal">In chapter 2 of her 2003 Rice University dissertation,
<i>Akawaio: </i></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">Zauro'nodok agawayo yau: Variants of Akawaio spoken at Waramadong,
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal">native speaker Desrey Caesar-Fox wrote a long chapter entitled “Genre and Classification in Akawaio”. I think you will find her discussion relevant to your question.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal">Her dissertation can be accessed at this link:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/18513">https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/18513</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Anvita Abbi <anvitaabbi@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 12:10 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Alexander Rice <ax.h.rice@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>LINGTYP <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lingtyp] Query: Approaches to genre/register analysis in under-documented oral-culture languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Dear Alexander,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">I have tried to document the oral tradition of the Great Andamanese language including creation tales and songs in the book
<i>Voices from the Lost Horizon </i>2021. Niyogi Books, Delhi available at Amazon. In addition, you may check the website
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.andamanese.org__;!!C5qS4YX3!BAvatIAJhr3cBM7K1-KeFYa6lxDwN0yv5v3JKI7E3zZU3fN9CQ9guVdd15oNpPgBAwwmrRdMSxuL-EOl06M$">
www.andamanese.org</a> which gives ample information on the oral tradition. You may find different registers at both sources. Unfortunately, the language is breathing its last.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 12:08 AM Alexander Rice <<a href="mailto:ax.h.rice@gmail.com">ax.h.rice@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">A good bit of the ink that gets spilled in corpus linguistics is spent on sussing out lexical and structural correlates of
<i>written</i> genres and registers in English (and, I would guess, other western-European majority languages), e.g., Biber and Conrad's:<i> Register, Genre, and Style</i> (2009).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I'm curious if there have been focused efforts along these lines for under-documented/minority/low resource languages that don't have much in the way of a written tradition.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Say you have a minority language community that does a lot of oral storytelling, the kinds of stories they tell might be grouped in genres based on the content of said stories (such as creation stories vs. personal
life experience stories), and you want to see if perhaps certain lexico-syntactic, phonetic, or discourse phenomena might be more typical in one of the type of story compared to the other.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">If you've done work like this, or have come across work of this type, I'd be very appreciative of any references you might have.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#888888">Alexander Rice, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.su.ualberta.ca/services/thelanding/learn/pronouns/__;!!C5qS4YX3!BAvatIAJhr3cBM7K1-KeFYa6lxDwN0yv5v3JKI7E3zZU3fN9CQ9guVdd15oNpPgBAwwmrRdMSxuLWg6cnCY$" target="_blank">(he,
him, his)</a>, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#888888">Doctoral Candidate</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#888888">Department of Linguistics, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#888888">University of Alberta</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#888888"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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