Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults
This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate whi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, [The Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2015
2015. |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Culture and language use ;
Volume 16. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427894206719 |
| Summary: | This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories, but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization and other narrative strategies, how they develop them and how they use them to structure these texts in an adult-like way. The tales are pre |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027268266 |
