[Lingtyp] Query: Approaches to genre/register analysis in under-documented oral-culture languages

[Alexander Rice]

Howdy folks

A good bit of the ink that gets spilled in corpus linguistics is spent on
sussing out lexical and structural correlates of *written* genres and
registers in English (and, I would guess, other western-European majority
languages), e.g., Biber and Conrad's: *Register, Genre, and Style* (2009).

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.

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.

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.

best,
--Alex

-- 
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