Interactive features in Yucatec Mayan narratives
- 18 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Language in Society
- Vol. 9 (3) , 307-319
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s004740450000823x
Abstract
This paper examines how Yucatec Mayan people conceive of conversations. Special attention is given to the role of narrator, respondent, and audience in those speech arts which utilize conversational genres. The conversational genres of ordinary talk, storytelling, and myth-telling in Yucatec Mayan are all dialogues. One field-recorded narrative is analyzed in detail in order to illustrate the distribution and scope of narrator and respondent speech. (Ethnography of speaking, Middle American native language use, discourse analysis, mythology and folklore performance.)This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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