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

[Spike Gildea]

Hi Alex,

In chapter 2 of her 2003 Rice University dissertation, Akawaio: Zauro'nodok agawayo yau: Variants of Akawaio spoken at Waramadong, 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.
Her dissertation can be accessed at this link: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/18513
Best,
Spike



From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Anvita Abbi <anvitaabbi at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 12:10 PM
To: Alexander Rice <ax.h.rice at gmail.com>
Cc: LINGTYP <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Query: Approaches to genre/register analysis in under-documented oral-culture languages
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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.andamanese.org__;!!C5qS4YX3!BAvatIAJhr3cBM7K1-KeFYa6lxDwN0yv5v3JKI7E3zZU3fN9CQ9guVdd15oNpPgBAwwmrRdMSxuL-EOl06M$> 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<mailto: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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