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

[Anvita Abbi]

Dear Alexander,
I have tried to document the oral tradition of the Great Andamanese
language including creation tales and songs in the book *Voices from the
Lost Horizon *2021. Niyogi Books, Delhi available at Amazon. In addition,
you may check the website www.andamanese.org which gives ample information
on the oral tradition. You may find different registers at both sources.
Unfortunately, the language is breathing its last.
Anvita

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 12:08 AM Alexander Rice <ax.h.rice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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