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

[Alexander Rice]

thanks to all for the info and references,

it much appreciated

best,
--Alex

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:38 PM 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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