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

[Seino van Breugel]

Dear Alex,

I have published a collection of texts in Atong (Tibeto-Burman, Northeast
India). There are different genres, which I point out in the section on
methodology and text collection. The most interesting story, for me, is the
epic story (number 37 in the book: Bandimynggymyn). I go into detail about
what sets this story apart from the others in the collection.

Here is a link to the publication: https://brill.com/display/title/36267

Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,

Seino
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Dr Seino van Breugel
Linguist, EAP, ESP, EFL, NT2
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 9:23 PM Spike Gildea <spike at uoregon.edu> wrote:

> 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
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> *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
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> 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.
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> Anvita
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> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 12:08 AM Alexander Rice <ax.h.rice at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Howdy folks
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> 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).
>
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> 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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> 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.
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> 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.
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> best,
>
> --Alex
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>
> --
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