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Neufeldt, Bradley. "Cultural confusions, oral/literary narrative negotiations in Tracks and Ravensong." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22548.pdf.
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Shaw, Delphine R. "George Sword's Warrior Narratives: A Study in the Processes of Composition of Lakota Oral Narrative." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311217.
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This research is the result of a long-standing interest in the work of one individual, George Sword who composed two hundred and forty-five pages of text in the Lakota language using the English alphabet in the period 1896 through 1910. In the past scholars have studied Lakota narratives and songs and with each study new insights are gained. However, the focus generally in oral literary research has been in the study of content and not process in Lakota oral traditions. In order to better understand the characteristics of Lakota oral style this study shows how it is composed and structured in the work of George Sword. The research focus is from a qualitative perspective concerned with exploring, describing, and explaining a culturally specific Lakota oral narrative more commonly found in history and ethnographic disciplines, where it is a special type of case study research. The primary method used is an analysis of historic documents and original text in Lakota to address the issues raised in the general research problem: How do you define Lakota literature? In the end this study shows the way in which Lakota oral narrative is composed, how its practice produced a distinct form. During the course of this study, what became apparent in George Sword's Lakota narratives were the formulaic patterns inherent in the Lakota language used to tell the narratives as well as the recurring themes and story patterns. The primary conclusion is that these patterns originate from a Lakota oral tradition. This analysis can be used to determine whether any given written narrative in Lakota oral tradition is oral or not; and leads the way for further research
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Calabaza, Estefanita Lynne. "Through Pueblo Oral Tradition and Personal Narrative: Following the Santo Domingan 'Good Path'." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144374.
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This master's thesis is an autoethnography. According to Denzin and Lincoln, an autoethnograpic piece "works to hold self and culture together, albeit not in equilibrium or stasis," (207). This thesis, presented in story form, tells how I was educated into and came to follow the "Good Path" in becoming a member of Santo Domingo Pueblo, and more specifically, a contemporary Santo Domingan woman. My story is framed within a Puebloan paradigm of remembrance as articulated through oral tradition, narrative and text, and the social and natural environments of my Santo Domingan world. Through introspection and reflection on the narratives, I elicit what I believe to be the foundational core values of Santo Domingo culture. I identify and reference these core values as Breath, Corn, Hair, and Family. It is through my stories that I have also come to understand the strength and power of oral traditional narratives and teachings.
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Kelly, Stephen T. "Homeric correption and the metrical distinctions between speeches and narrative." New York : Garland, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/20823392.html.
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Salie, Shazia. "The representations of Sojourner Truth in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7311.
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Magister Artium - MAI read representations of Sojourner Truth in her Spiritual Narrative, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth with a focus on the portrayal of her unconventional character, through a close analysis of language, structure, photographs and narrative voice. Truth’s editor Olive Gilbert’s raises questions about whether the daguerreotype offers a more accurate form of representation than text. I explore the similarities and differences between visual and written portraits in representations of Truth as a unique figure. I question critical readings of Sojourner Truth’s dress in photographs as conservative, reading instead for a combination of conservative and subversive elements. I suggest that her interest in aesthetic forms such as dress and décor is symbolic of her yearning for home, her heritage, her agency, and unique taste. Her many references to her family indicate that she was more than just an empowered figure, but also one who still grieved. I read Truth’s description of domestic space as representing ambivalently, both her sense of loss, and her attempts to acquire agency. I consider how Truth attempts to recreate a sense of family and belonging through fragments of memory. In my reading of how she questions and extends conventional notions of family and community, I explore how she adapts and includes song, and quotations from the Bible in her sermons, by drawing on elements of African folktale and music. Most critics focus on Truth’s strong voice as an activist, there is little attention to the significance of spiritual solitude for her reimagining of community. I suggest that Truth offers alternative ideas of community as fluid rather than as fixed in one place. I explore how her ideas challenge the notion of nation as exclusive. I consider the genre of The Narrative by analyzing Olive Gilbert’s role as editor and writer. I propose that her role in The Narrative is a more complex one than suggested by critics, as it challenges conventional concepts of autobiography creating a conversation between two voices and lives.
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Lewis, Lynn C. "Towards an ethnography of voice in Amerafrican culture : an oral traditional register in four women's narratives /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946273.
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Ramos, Adriana Jorge Lopes Machado. "A Dita-cuja : uma narrativa de tradição oral sobre A filha do diabo, reinterpretada para a literatura infanto-juvenil." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/134377.
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O objetivo geral desta tese consiste em transformar a narrativa inédita de tradição oral “A filha do diabo”, recolhida em Luzerna, no oeste de Santa Catarina, em um texto literário para o público leitor infanto-juvenil. Para alcançar tal objetivo, propõe-se descrever o relato de pesquisa e o diário de campo, bem como transcrever a narrativa inédita de tradição oral “A filha do diabo”, analisar a narrativa transcrita “A filha do diabo”, definir um conjunto de pressupostos aplicáveis ao processo de reinterpretação de uma narrativa de tradição oral para literatura infanto-juvenil e reinterpretar a narrativa analisada “A filha do diabo” para um texto literário destinado ao público infanto-juvenil que se intitulará A Dita-Cuja.This paper intends to change the brand new narrative of oral tradition “The Devil’s Daughter” (Luzerna, Western Santa Catarina) into a literary work for juveniles. In order to achieve this objective, it is proposed to describe the research report and the field diary as well as transcribing this narrative and analysing the transcribed version of it. Moreover, it is suggested to set a group of presuppositions, which are applicable to the process of reinterpretation of a narrative of oral tradition focusing it on juvenile literature, and reinterpret the analysed narrative “The Devil’s Daughter” by making it a literary text for juveniles named “The Un-referable”.
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Sekhoela, William Godwright. "Account-giving in the narratives of personal experience in Sepedi." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1200.
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Brinkman, Inge. "Kikuyu gender norms and narrative /." Leiden : Research school CNWS, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37712892x.
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Gomes, Marlene. "As narrativas míticas no contexto escolar: análise da produção textual de uma turma de aprendentes do sétimo ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola municipal de Manaus." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2008. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/4128.
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This research has as its objective to analyze the contribution of regional mythic in the process of written textual production, from a group of seven grade learners of a public school in Manaus. Its other intention is to identify in the produced texts in this process expressive traces of Amazonian culture assimilated by oral tradition. The research ran three comparative analyses of written productions verifying the progressive evolvement as to the written narrative of The Manioc Legend; of versions collected from oral counts and told to the group by the learners themselves up to the one by Jose Coutinho Oliveira, presented as a possible model. The analyses of sequences found in the texts revealed the efficacy of mythic narratives as a method resource to orient the production of written texts in school setting. This was firstly noticed through creativity expression presented by the learners by adding new elements to the narrative sequences of the legend, as well as, the utilized resources in characterizing the layers; as a last element, it was the use of a language of which one could verify the projection of its socio-cultural reality.
Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a contribuição das narrativas míticas regionais no processo de produção textual escrita, de uma turma de aprendentes de sétimo ano do Ensino Fundamental, de uma escola pública de Manaus, bem como identificar, nos textos produzidos nesse processo, traços expressivos da cultura amazônica assimilados da tradição oral. A pesquisa percorreu uma análise comparativa das produções escritas, em número de três, verificando a progressiva desenvoltura dos aprendentes quanto à narrativa escrita da Lenda da Mandioca, a partir de versões colhidas da oralidade e relatadas à turma pelos próprios aprendentes, e da versão de José Coutinho de Oliveira, apresentada como possível modelo. A análise das seqüências encontradas nos textos revelou a eficácia das narrativas míticas, enquanto recurso metodológico, para a orientação de produção de textos escritos no contexto escolar. Isso foi percebido por meio da criatividade com que os aprendentes se expressam, acrescentando elementos novos às seqüências narrativas da lenda, dos recursos utilizados na caracterização das personagens, e, do emprego de uma linguagem na qual se pode verificar a projeção da sua realidade sociocultural.
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Seck, Mamarame. "The structure of Wolof Sufi oral narratives expanding the Labovian and Longacrean models to accommodate Wolof oral tradition /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024981.
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Wilson, Michael. "A study of oral narrative traditions amongst teenagers in Britain and Ireland." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337749.
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Cunha, Álvaro Fernando Rodrigues da. "Narrativa na (língua judaico-marroquina) hakitía." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-12092012-095311/.
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Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo estudar os aspectos da tradição oral das narrativas em língua hakitía, falada por judeus brasileiros ascendentes de marroquinos residentes em Santarém, Pará. Seriam essas narrativas veículo de manutenção e divulgação da identidade étnica do grupo que a fala, de modo a possibilitar o estabelecimento e a paridade absoluta nas diferentes circunstâncias de mudança política e social à que se submetem? Em tese, são falantes linguisticamente diferenciados, pois a língua que falam no cotidiano é diferente da portuguesa brasileira e, aparentemente, têm o predomínio da Tradição Oral nas formas de transmissão cultural. A análise foi feita a partir de narrativas orais tomadas em trabalho de campo e interpretadas à luz das propostas de BRUNER (1991); LABOV (1997) e VANSINA (1982). Acrescida da proposição de cruzamento feita pelo autor da tese.This research aims at studying features of the traditional oral narratives of the Hakitia language, spoken by Brazilian Jews of Maroccan origin living in Santarém, Pará, Brazil. Would those narratives be a means of maintaining and promoting the ethnic identity of the community that speaks the Hakitia language in order to reassure their cultural heritage and uniqueness amongst different circumstances of political and social changes to which they have been exposed? We verify that they are speakers linguistically differentiated, since their daily language is different from the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, and, apparently, they rely heavily on the Oral Tradition to hand on their culture. Firstly, the analysis was carried out based on oral narratives collected by means of field research, and interpreted in the light of theories formulated by BRUNER (1991); LABOV (1997); and VANSINA (1982). Secondly, the analysis was enriched by the contributions of the researcher of this thesis after carefully crossing the data and their theoretical underpinnings.
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Kelly, Stephen Timothy. "Homeric correption and the metrical distinctions between speeches and narrative /." New York : Garland publ, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb356983748.
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Maciel, Carla Maria Ataíde Hawkins Bruce Wayne Kalter Susan. "Bantu oral narratives in the training of EFL teachers in Mozambique." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1390280981&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1202917314&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.Title from title page screen, viewed on February 13, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Bruce Hawkins, Susan Kalter (co-chairs), Kristin Dykstra. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 258-275) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Derico, T. M. "Oral tradition or literary dependence? : verbal agreement in the Synoptic Gospels and the Whitman narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530024.
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Shortt, Butler Joanne. "Narrative structure and the individual in the Íslendingasögur : motivation, provocation and characterisation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269413.
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This thesis takes a fresh, character-based approach to the Íslendingasögur. It is inspired by a narratological study that unites the functional and structural role of characters with their human, individualistic portrayal. My major objective is to demonstrate the important connection between characterisation and structure in the sagas. By drawing attention to characters that I term narrative triggers, I offer a way of reading the sagas that relies both on the narrative conventions of tradition and on the less predictable, personal interactions between the cast of any given saga. In the case of both major and minor figures in the Íslendingasögur a certain type of character is often present to perform necessary motivational functions, allowing the plot to develop. In Part I I emphasise the functional aspect of these characters, before exploring unusual examples that emphasise their individuality in Part II.The motivation of the plot is linked throughout to the figure of the ójafnaðarmaðr. A secondary objective is to provide a clearer understanding of the nature and function of this commonly occurring character type. The ójafnaðarmaðr is frequently alluded to in scholarship,but this thesis provides the first in-depth study of the portrayal of these characters. The quality that informs them (ójafnaðr,‘inequity’, lit. ‘unevenness’) is a threat to one of the core values of saga society and hints at an ‘unbalancing’ of social interactions and of the narrative equilibrium itself. That this unbalance leads to changes in the social structure of the setting is a key factor in driving the plots of the sagas along. For this reason, a detailed examination of the figure of the ójafnaðarmaðr is long overdue: they can be observed to perform a specific narrative function but are always fitted to suit their particular context. Focussing on the structural conventions of character introduction, Part I establishes my methodology and catalogues the examples of characters introduced as ójafnaðarmenn. The scope is limited to those introduced as such because it allows me to establish for the first time the full corpus and conventions of these characters and their introductions. Following developments in our understanding of the oral background to the sagas, my approach to these narratives is built upon the evidence of their shared origins in pre-literate storytelling [...]. The intersection between functionality and individuality in character brings certain aspects of the Íslendingasögur to the fore. Part II of this thesis shows that in combination with the structural markers explored in Part I, the sagas employ the collective perspective of the general public, other characters and ‘irrational’ motivators such as fate to contribute to their techniques of characterisation. Because disruptive qualities speak inherently of a difference in the way an individual sees themselves and in the way the public sees them, or we as an audience are meant to see them, figures termed ójafnaðarmaðr are an ideal focal point for the development of this study.
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Toua, Léonie. "Enjeux du conte de source orale dans le processus d’éducation langagière en contexte scolaire.Intervention didactique dans quatre collèges francophones au Cameroun." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAL012.
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Souvent considéré comme une pure littérature ludique et enfantine, le conte ne relève pas seulement d'une pratique culturelle ancrée dans les arts et modes de vie, mais d'une modalité pédagogique émanant de la dialectique de l'oralité. Bien plus, il semble occuper une place primordiale dans le contexte socio-culturel africain/camerounais et ce, malgré le développement et l'expansion de la « société de l'écriture ». Mais au vu des difficultés auxquelles seraient confrontés certains acteurs de l’éducation (enseignants, conteurs, élèves) à transmettre cet art de la parole, ne serait-il pas temps de découvrir la manière et la pédagogie avec lesquelles le conte peut permettre aux élèves de déployer des compétences orales? Comment initier les apprenants à une pratique artistique du conte qui différencie l'action de lire à celle de conter oralement? Partant de différents niveaux de médiation, les pistes de ce travail explorent l'approche pédagogique de l'oralité et proposent des activités langagières dans trois collèges au Cameroun. Nos résultats (dé)montrent qu’à défaut de perpétuer et de renforcer la culture de l'oralité, le conte oral développe et contribue à la valorisation des compétences narratives chez les apprenants. La visée de la présente étude est, d’une part d’intégrer le conte comme un moyen propice au langage et un vecteur d'identité interculturelle, et d’autre part de renouveler les approches et perspectives, tant dans l'enseignement de l’oral que dans l’ingénierie pédagogiqueOften considered as a linguistic and narrative process reserved to children, tale's approach can not be overlooked in Cameroonian socio-cutural and anthropological context. Even though, nowadays, there is an evident development and the expasion of a rampant writing culture. In fact, in oral tradition, tale occupies an essential place in the learning process. But, then, how, and with what specific pedagogy, the tale can be hepful for pupils in their curriculum as far as learning is concerned ? Since, each tale is mainly given orally, how can it be proposed to learners who are of a different cultural background, namely, a writing culture ? In this work, taking into consideration didactic approach of educational actors, our main purpose is to establish that the pedagogic dimension of tale does not rely only on its artistic relevance but has a primordial role in oral tradition. Consequently our results first of all show that trough this cultural chanel, that is, tale, is an efficient instrument for a reliable communication in oral tradition; tale is a bridge in cultural transmission. Secondly, by using tale's approach, learners are better equiped in their narrative skills. Therefore, the present work puts accross the importance of tales in oral tradition speciffically and in a writing culture as well. Indeed tale is a valuable pedadogic agent. As our research work try to show, tale can no longer be considered as a pure playful and childish literature, but an indispensable vector of intercultural identity in Cameroonian context. Taking into account various levels of mediation, the present work proposes concrete linguistic activities, not from the tales gathered in various textbooks of the official schools' curricula, but from a new directory which may enable eventual users to explore the didactic approach yet to be discovered in tale's wisdom
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Catenacci, Vivian Silva. "O vôo dos pássaros: uma reflexão sobre o lugar do contador de histórias na contemporaneidade." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3924.
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Previous issue date: 2008-05-19Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Modernity identified the practice of telling stories against a background of tradition, involving people who were illiterate, peasant workers and for this reason fated to disappear. Contrary to popular belief there is now a substantial and continuous growth of this activity in the big cities. This study makes this assumption in order to understand what is specific to the practice in contemporary narrative. This study articulates concepts developed by researchers dedicated to the theme of narration and the world of short stories, by the narrative of storytellers invited to participate in the "II International Meeting of Storytellers" and the video documentary, "Histórias . It is also composed by statements from new storytellers and traditional narrators recorded in researches related to the theme. The story described in this dissertation is based on the experiences of the researcher, as listener and narrator, in raising and drawing up the issues investigated. This paper is divided into three chapters: the first is dedicated to the specific aspects of the art of oral narrative and the place the storyteller has been relegated to in Modern Times. Chapter two considers the changes which have occurred in the narrative practices under the influences of a society in transition. The last chapter presents a reflection on the skills of the storyteller in the contemporary context
A modernidade identificou a prática de contar histórias com o universo da tradição, uma ação própria das camadas populares iletradas, ligadas ao campo e, por isso, fadada ao esquecimento. Ao contrário da aposta moderna, verifica-se, na atualidade, um crescimento considerável e contínuo dessa atividade nas grandes cidades. Esta pesquisa parte desse pressuposto com o objetivo de compreender o que é específico à prática narrativa na contemporaneidade. Este estudo articula conceitos desenvolvidos por pesquisadores dedicados à temática da oralidade e do universo dos contos, à fala de narradores convidados a participar do II Encontro Internacional de Contadores de Histórias e do vídeo-documentário Histórias. O texto também é composto por depoimentos dos novos contadores e de narradores tradicionais registrados em pesquisas relacionadas ao tema. A história narrada nesta dissertação, é permeada pelas experiências da pesquisadora, como ouvinte e narradora oral, por terem suscitado a elaboração das questões investigadas. Este trabalho divide-se em três capítulos: o primeiro dedicado às especificidades da arte de narrar oralmente e ao lugar relegado ao contador com advento da modernidade. O capítulo dois tematiza as mudanças da prática narrativa ocorridas sob as influências de uma sociedade em transformação. No último capítulo apresento uma reflexão sobre o ofício de contador no contexto contemporâneo
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Coulter, Tatyana Tekla Elizabeth. "When words are returned, approaching traditional and contemporary oral narrative integration in Whitehorse primary curriculum." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0013/MQ30208.pdf.
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Rabau, Sophie. "La narration orale dans le texte romanesque : éléments pour une poétique de la communication narrative de la tradition antique aux formes contemporaines." Paris 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030064.
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Nous etudions la representation dans le roman du face a face entre le conteur et ses auditeurs, ce que nous nommons la narration orale. Nous fondons nos analyses sur le roman ancien grec et latin, que nous rapprochons a titre de comparaiso n et de verification de romans modernes et contemporains. Une telle etude engage a penser une dynamique de l'echange narratif plutot qu'a decrire la forme de l'enonce, et elle exige en outre une prise en compte de la difference entre la communication textuelle et la communication en presence. Ce constat conduit a poser l'idee d'une rhetorique paradoxale : le roman justifie la narration par la representation d'un objet inassignable qui n'a d'autre lieu que la page et qui ne represente ni la communication ecrite ni la pratique historique de la narration orale. Cette hypothese est ensuite mise a l'epreuve des textes. La description d'une topique de la narration orale n'est qu'un prealable indispensable a l'analyse d'une tension entre le texte et l'oralite. D'une part, la representation du desir narratif, comme exigence infinie de presence, s'oppose au fait du denouement sur la page; d'autre part, la voix qui dans le texte impose le recit brouille l'origine du texte romanesque. On peut alors interroger certaines interpretations de la narration orale dans le texte romanesque, en degageant le lien qui unit travail hermeneutique et illusion de la co-presenceThe thesis studies oral narration, i. E. How fiction represents the encounter between story teller and listeners. The analyses are based on examples drawn from ancient latin and greek novels, as well as modern and contemporary novels referred to for comparison and verification. This study is achieved by thinking up a dynamics of narrative exchange rather than describing the forms of uterrances. Besides, it requires that textual communication be differentiated from inter-individual communication. Thanks to this observation i hypothetise the idea of paradoxical rhetoric, viz. The nove l justifies narration thanks to the representation of an unascribable object whose single locus is the page and which epitomises neither written communication nor oral narrative as historical practice. This hypothesis is subsequently put to the test of texts. Although it is possible to describe the topics of tale's representation, such a perspective is only a prerequisite to analyse the tension between the novel's text and oral narration. On the one hand, the representation of narrative desire as an infinite demand of presence stands in opposition to the denouement taking place in the page. On the other, the voice which imposes the narrative in the text interferes with the origin of the novel's text. Eventually, i emphasise the link between hermeneutic work and the illusion of co-presence
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Silva, Valdir Moreira da. "No c?u da boca das gentes, tem estrela e maravilhas: atualiza??o e perman?ncia das narrativas populares nos contos de enganar a morte." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2014. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16331.
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Previous issue date: 2014-01-28This current study consists in an analysis of the work Contos de enganar a morte (2004), of the novelist, illustrator and researcher of popular culture Ricardo Azevedo, aiming to highlight aspects and elements present in this work which show the update and the permanence of traditional popular narratives, widespread by orality, especially those collected by the Lu?s da C?mara Cascudo in Literatura oral no Brasil (1984), linked to the category of the Cycle of the Death and Tales of the Deceived Demon. It is argued that the symbolic, playful, humor and aspects of orality, evident in these narratives are cultural possessions own of a popular tradition that diffuses, is updated and maintained by the memory of handmade anonymous narrators (BENJAMIN, 1994), poets and brazilian singers of cordel, holders of the traditional knowledge not established, but polyphonic, dialogical and democratic in essence (BAKHTIN, 1996). Still, alongside the people who know and counts the stories of Trancoso and Fairies, the tale, as a written literary genre, has allowed to maintain outstanding the same subjects successively renewed, enabling the resistance of popular narrative tradition and understanding and appreciation of popular orality (ZUMTHOR, 1993; 2000) and of the updates performed in the contemporarity (CANDIDO, 1976), without losing sight of the singularity and autonomy of the literary work
O presente estudo consiste em an?lise comparativa objetivando ressaltar a atualiza??o e a perman?ncia entre narrativas populares tradicionais, pr?prias da tradi??o oral, em especial as coligidas por Lu?s da C?mara Cascudo, em Literatura oral no Brasil (1984), vinculadas ? categoria dos Contos de Dem?nio Logrado e do Ciclo da Morte, e os Contos de enganar a morte (2004), do ficcionista, ilustrador e pesquisador de cultura popular Ricardo Azevedo. Nesta obra, tra?os e motivos recorrentes nas narrativas orais est?o vivos e duradouros, evidenciando a perman?ncia das narrativas tradicionais, difundidas na Idade M?dia (SARAIVA, 1996; DUBY, 1988; 1990), atualizadas na contemporaneidade especialmente pelo g?nero liter?rio conto. Defende-se que o car?ter simb?lico, l?dico e o humor inerentes a essas narrativas orais (ZUMTHOR, 1993; BURKE, 2010) s?o bens culturais pr?prios de uma tradi??o popular que se difunde, se atualiza e se mant?m pela mem?ria (BOSI, 2006; BRANDAO, 2008) de narradores artesanais an?nimos (BENJAMIN, 1994), poetas e cantores de cordel (FERREIRA, 1979) ainda existentes nos rec?nditos dos sert?es brasileiros, detentores de um saber tradicional n?o institu?do, mas polif?nico, dial?gico e democr?tico em ess?ncia (COELHO, 1991, 2003; TURCHI, 2004; BAKHTIN, 1996). Boa parte dessas narrativas que t?m se tornado cl?ssicos catalogados como Literatura Infantil s?o maravilhas nascidas na boca do povo e muito ap?s ? que se popularizaram em adapta??es do mercado liter?rio (COELHO, 1991; BENJAMIN, 1994). Al?m disso, ao lado do povo que sabe e ainda conta est?rias de Trancoso e de Fadas, o g?nero liter?rio conto tem podido manter em circula??o os mesmos assuntos sucessivamente renovados (CASCUDO, 1984), possibilitando o resgate da narrativa oral tradicional, bem como a compreens?o e valoriza??o tanto da tradi??o popular oral quanto da renova??o imposta por nosso tempo, perenizando-se a concep??o est?tica filtrada por elementos sociais sincr?nicos e diacr?nicos (C?NDIDO, 1976), sem perder de vista a singularidade e a autonomia da obra liter?ria
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Iwataki, Ana A. "Mythic Narratives: The Chronicling of Conceptual Art." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/1.
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An exploration of the mythologized narratives that the work and lives of Conceptual artists Bas Jan Ader, Ana Mendieta, and Francis Alÿs have created and inspired. By virtue of their biographies, the fetishization of their personalities, and the ways in which this anecdotal information can be read in their work, mythologized narratives have been constructed, allowing for a prolonged interest existing within and without the confines of the art world. These mythologies come together as part of the oral tradition of the art world, a chronicling of narratives that incites continued interest for future generations.
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Wang, Yu Hsin, and n/a. "Learning from the past, providing for our future : an exploration of traditional Paiwanese craft as inspiration for contemporary ceramics." Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20070205.101252.
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This project started with the Taiwanese�s Cultural & Creative Industries Policy,
which demands that all new products include local cultural content. However, little
is known about Taiwanese cultures. This research looked specifically at one of the
cultures, the Paiwanese Tribe.
This thesis reports on the research journey; identifying what the Paiwanese knew
about their culture and why they were unable to produce traditional products. It
argues that the displacement of the tribe has made it materially impossible to
continue traditional practices. This research then identified ways of capturing spirit
of traditional culture using modern technology. A successful model of working with
crafts people workshops in discussed. A case is made for the use of narrative
enquiry and oral history to record Paiwanese understanding. These
understandings were translated into a design outcome using a design method
called narrative design. The success of this research suggests that such an
approach is one model that can be used in design using new technologies and
materials from the re-establishment method of traditional products.
The understanding generated for regaining traditional craft knowledge is extended
with the design of a tea set that draws on this traditional knowledge, narrative and
culture. The tea set represents this knowledge for a global market. It is argued that
the design process used can guide design that transforms the culture message
and delivers it for a wide audience. This design concept process is a model that
can be used to develop cultural products.
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Rubira, Fabiana de Pontes. "Dançando com o Minotauro nas noites: narração de estórias e formação humana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-25052015-111218/.
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Desde tempos imemoriais, a milenar arte de contar e ouvir estórias está estreitamente relacionada com a formação de seres humanos. Narrar é uma ação própria do humano, incluindo-se nesse ato não só a narrativa de fatos vividos, mas sobretudo daqueles que são experimentados no âmbito do imaginário, fonte mitológica, portanto primordial, que nos supre dos símbolos essenciais necessários para a nossa existência no mundo. A partir de vivências narrativas proporcionadas aos frequentadores do Lab_Arte da FEUSP, em sua maioria alunos do curso de Pedagogia e de Licenciatura da Universidade de São Paulo, no núcleo de Narração de Estórias, através da investigação poética de seus processos simbólicos e de seus itinerários formativos, pôde-se perceber a importância de se cuidar da formação humana desses futuros docentes. Uma formação que transcende as barreiras escolares e que se dá para além das questões tecnicistas e operacionais que, em geral, servem como base única para os costumeiros cursos formativos de professores. Desde uma perspectiva hermenêutica e fenomenológica, as reflexões suscitadas pelas vivências no laboratório conduziram a pesquisadora desse trabalho ao mito fundador da pessoa contadora de estórias, que encontra sua expressão mais significativa na figura da sultana Sherazade, do livro das Mil e uma Noites, mas que perpassa o mito de Ariadne, a Senhora dos Labirintos, que por sua vez atualiza o mito sumério de Inanna, a senhora dos céus e dos ínferos. Narrando à beira do precipício, a Senhora da Vida convida o Senhor da Morte para uma contradança labiríntica, de cujo fim inexorável ninguém escapa. As estórias de tradição oral como fios que nos conectam aos nossos ancestrais e a todos que virão depois de nós, como palavra viva que prevalece sobre o narrador, nos despertam para um aprendizado que aponta para a necessidade de uma realização pessoal que se situa sempre dentro de uma existência coletiva comum e, como gesticuladores culturais, os professores acabam por entender que no banquete dos saberes tradicionais a única forma de saciar nossa fome e apaziguar nossa sede de conhecer é alimentando-nos e oferecendo-nos água fresca uns aos outros. Assim, acreditando que arte de narrar estórias é, sobretudo, a arte do encontro e do diálogo, foram os encontros e os diálogos dessa pesquisadora, professora e narradora de estórias, com as estórias e com seus alunos ouvintes-narradores, bem como seus diálogos com teóricos e pesquisadores como Georges Gusdorf, Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Chris Downing, Amadou Hampâté Bá e Marcos Ferreira-Santos , que nortearam essa pesquisa que, dessa forma, resultou numa complexa constelação simbólica de sentidos e significados, como exige o foco de uma investigação poética.Since immemorial times, the millennial art of storytelling has been closely related to the education and human formation. Narrating is a typical human action, which includes not only narrating experienced facts, but also especially those that are experienced within the imaginary scope, our mythological and so primordial source of essential symbols necessary for our existence in the world. From narrative experiences offered to Lab_Arte goers most of whom being students of Pedagogy and of other degree courses from University of São Paulo, through the poetic research of their symbolic processes and their formative itineraries it was possible to realize the importance of taking care of the human formation of these future teachers. An education that transcends the school barriers and which is made beyond the technicist and operational issues that, in general, serve as a single basis of development for the usual training courses for teachers. From a hermeneutic and phenomenological perspective, the thoughts aroused by experiences in the lab led the researcher of this work to the founder myth of the storyteller, which finds its most significant expression in the figure of sultana Scheherazade, from the Arabians Night book, but that also pervades the myth of Ariadne, the Mistress of the Labyrinth, which turn to updates the Sumerian myth of Inanna, the Mistress of heaven and the world above. While narrates on the edge of the cliff, the Lady of Life invites the Lord of Death to a labyrinth dance, from whose inexorable end nobody escapes. The oral-tradition stories as threads that connect us to our ancestors and to all those who come after us as a living word that prevails on the narrator awaken us towards apprenticeship that points to the need for a personal fulfillment that only can be achieved within the space of a common and collective existence. As cultural agents, teachers will understand that at the feast of traditional knowledge the only way to end up our hunger and assuage our thirst of knowing is to feed us and provide us with fresh water to each other. So, believing that art of storytelling is, above all, the art of encounter and dialogue, the meetings and dialogues of this researcher, teacher and storyteller with the stories and with her students, as well as her dialogue with theoreticians and researchers like Georges Gusdorf, Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Chris Downing, Amadou Hampâté Bá, and Marcos Ferreira-Santos were the guiders to this research. Therefore, this study resulted in a complex symbolic constellation of meanings and senses, which is de focus of a poetic investigation.
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Reed, Caroliese Frink. "Aesthetic Re-Creation and Regeneration in African American Storytelling: The Works of Torrence, Goss and Alston." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/362263.
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African American StudiesPh.D.
From the animal and trickster tales told by enslaved Africans in America to current education and performance based storytelling by contemporary African American storytellers, this study traces the aesthetics and epistemologies of the collaborative African diasporic oral expressive traditions. Through systematic analysis based on data derived from bibliographic and archival sources, interviews, and participant observation, it delineates the progression of the repertoire and content of Blackstorytelling through the lives and works of national and internationally known storytellers, Jackie Torrence, Linda Goss and Charlotte Blake Alston. Its theoretical framework is inspired by Kariamu Welsh Asante’s aesthetic senses coupled with pertinent ideas of other scholars in the field. The study demonstrates the existence of significant evidence of cultural preservation and artistic re-interpretation of the African aesthetic in Blackstorytelling. The genre comprises both traditional and contemporary expressions of African American culture. As such, it is a major component of the universal African oral continuum
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Cocq, Coppélie. "Revoicing Sámi narratives : north Sámi storytelling at the turn of the 20th century." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Department of language studies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1598.
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Revoicing Sámi narratives investigates the relationship between storytellers, contexts and collective tradition, based on an analysis of North Sámi narratives published in the early 1900s. This dissertation “revoices” narratives by highlighting the coexistence of different voices or socio-ideological languages in repertoires and by considering Sámi narratives as utterances by storytellers rather than autonomous products of tradition. Thus, this study serves as an act of “revoicing,” of recovering voices that had been silenced by the scientific discourse which enveloped their passage into print.
Narrators considered “tradition bearers” were interviewed or wrote down folk narratives that were interpreted as representative of a static, dying culture. The approach chosen in this thesis highlights the dynamic and conscious choices of narrative strategies made by these storytellers and the implications of the discourses expressed in narration. By taking into account the intense context of social change going on in Sápmi at the time the narratives emerged, as well as the context that includes narrators, ethnographers and tradition, the analysis demonstrates that storytelling is an elaboration that takes place in negotiation with tradition, genres and individual preferences.
The repertoires of four storytellers are studied according to a methodological framework consisting in critical discourse analysis from a folkloristic perspective. The analysis underscores the polyphony of the narratives by Johan Turi, who related with skillfulness of tradition by taking position as a conscious social actor. This study also investigates the repertoires of storytellers Ellen Utsi, Per Bær and Isak Eira who were interviewed by the
Norwegian “lappologist” Just K. Qvigstad. Their contributions to his extensive collection of Sámi narratives express their relation to tradition and to the heteroglossia that surrounded them. Based on a receptionalist approach, this dissertation investigates the implications of these narratives for the North Sámi community at the turn of the twentieth century.
Storytelling appears to have had a set of functions for community members, from the normative as regards socialization, information and warning against dangers to the defensive with the elaboration of a discourse about solidarity, identity and empowerment.
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Zoumanigui, Akoye Massa. "L'Epopée de Zébéla Tokpa Pivi : Culture Loma, performance, genres narratifs et non narratifs." Thesis, Besançon, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011BESA1031.
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Notre projet de thèse vise à analyser ce qui porte la trace du travail de la mémoire collective dans un discours de littérature orale, de la transmission qui assure la compréhension et la conservation du message. Il s'agit pour nous d'expliquer comment la profération du discours de littérature orale et la performance à laquelle il donne lieu restitue les valeurs culturelles des loma.Cette épopée retrace l'histoire d'un chef de guerre qui fait encore de nos jours partie de la culture populaire au pays des loma en République de Guinée. Nous assurons la transcription en langue locale lɔɠɔmagooy et la traduction en français de cette épopée dont il n'existe aucune version écrite.Au-delà de la présentation géographique et culturelle du pays des loma, l'analyse proprement dite du corpus pour laquelle nous mobilisons à la fois la performance et la rhétorique prend en compte la pluricodicité des messages socio-historico-culturel et la dynamique de réception. Nous focalisons l'attention sur des procédés discursifs spécifiques de l'oralité à travers le conte et le proverbe.Notre travail ne se limite pas à la transcription-traduction du discours épique, l'analyse montre comment l'oralité constitue une dimension essentielle de l'épopée dont l'épaisseur discursive et référentielle atteste du travail de composition artistique et mémorielle de l'orateurThis thesis aims at analyzing the collective memory content imbedded in an oral literature speech performance, right from the message transmission to its understanding and preservation. We are to explain how an oral literature speech production and its performance can retitute the Loma cultural values.The epic retraces the history of a former war leader among the Loma people of the Republic of Guinea; a history which still remains a vibrant part of the people's culture in that country. Because it doesn't exist any former written version of the epic, we ensured its transcription into Lɔɠɔmagooh language (a loma variant) and also its translation into French language.Beside the geographical and cultural presentation of the Loma area and people, the real corpus analysis in which we mobilize both performance and rethorics also takes into account the multicoding nature of the social, historical and cultural messages and their reception dynamics. We focus attention on the specific discursive technics of oral literature or tradition which exist in tales and proverbs.However, our work is not just limited to transcription and translation of the epic production. Our analysis shows how oral tradition constitutes an essential dimension of the epic genre whose discursive and referential deepness is the reflection of the artistic and memorial work of the orator
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Fromonteil, Alice. "L'art de raconter à Uvea (Wallis, Polynésie occidentale) : une topologie narrative." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0249.
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Fondée sur une enquête ethnographique à 'Uvea (Wallis, Polynésie occidentale), cette thèse porte sur l’« art de raconter » (fakamatala) pour explorer la manière dont cette activité inscrit le narrateur et les énonciataires dans un cadre spatio-temporel façonné, expérimenté et vécu. Il s’agit d’interroger les conditions, les modalités et les effets des pratiques narratives, à l’heure où une série de mutations renouvellent profondément la société locale, notamment le statut de la parole et l’organisation foncière qui, en l’absence de cadastre, repose sur l’oralité. Présenté dans un second volume, un corpus bilingue regroupant cent récits oraux enregistrés et transcrits puis traduits avec des Wallisiens a été élaboré. Dans le sillage de l’anthropologie linguistique, la thèse envisage les arts de la parole comme des performances sociales, en suivant comme fil conducteur les formes d’expression déployées par les narrateurs pour articuler mise en récit et mise en espace. L’approche topologique développée permet d’englober les différentes échelles d’analyse pour examiner le sens des expériences, et constitue l’outil théorique avec lequel les interactions observées et les procédés narratifs identifiés sont considérés. C’est en tant que tel que cet objet d’étude sera envisagé, à partir du cas des orateurs wallisiens qui font de l’art verbal un puissant vecteur rhétorique et émotionnel pour s’approprier leur langue, leur terre et leur histoire, rappelant la nécessité de considérer que raconter, c’est faireBased on ethnographic fieldwork on 'Uvea (Wallis, Western Polynesia), this thesis concerns the “art of storytelling” (fakamatala) in order to explore the way in which this activity inscribes the narrator and the enunciators in a shaped, experienced and lived spatio-temporal framework. It examines the conditions, modalities and effects of narrative practices, at a time when a series of transformations is profoundly changing local society, particularly the status of speech and the organization of land tenure which, with no land registry, relies on orality. A bilingual corpus containing a hundred oral accounts recorded, transcribed and then translated with Wallisians is presented in a second volume. In the wake of linguistic anthropology, this thesis regards the spoken arts as social performances, taking as its main theme the forms of expression used by narrators to link storytelling and staging. The topological approach developed makes it possible to encompass the different scales of analysis in order to consider the meaning of experiences and constitutes the theoretical tool used to examine the interactions observed and the narrative processes identified. This is how the subject studied will be seen, based on the case of Wallisian orators who make verbal art a powerful rhetorical and emotional vector in order to appropriate their language, land, and history, recalling the necessity of considering that storytelling is acting
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Darroux, Caroline. "La vieille femme salie : récit d'une résistance à la modernité : Morvan XXe-XXIe siècles." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX10018.
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Qu’elle soit concrète ou symbolique, la souillure, dont témoignent certaines vieilles femmes, est le résultat d’une assignation familiale, sociale et historique. Une force de vie particulière leur a fait assumer la place de l’Autre, provoquant un phénomène d’attraction collective. Voir cette vieille femme, la sentir, la toucher, la rencontrer dans son lieu et l’écouter s’inscrit dans l’ordre des expériences initiatiques que la société de Progrès ne ritualise plus, mais que le quotidien préserve en réponse à une nécessité intime, mythique et collective. Par miroitements, ces femmes ont incarné les multiples facettes du personnage de la vieille dans la littérature orale où s’imposent l’éthique et la quête de dignité. Raconter « les affaires du pays », dans le Morvan du XXe et du XXIe siècles, en parlant patois et en évoquant avec précaution la Vieille Femme construit un îlot de résistance au récit dominant, un espace collectif de libération et en même temps un dérivatif permettant d’accepter l’HistoireWhether real or symbolic, the stained image displayed by some unclean old women is the result of a historic, social and family-set assignment. The singular strength of character shown by these women has placed them in the position of being perceived as 'the Other', bringing about a phenomenon of group attraction. Seeing the old woman, sensing her smell, touching her, meeting her at her home and listening to her: these are experiences like rites of passage, that modern society does not provide anymore. But these experiences are still present in our everyday life as a response to an intimate, mythical and societal need. Like a mirror, these women have embodied the multiple aspects of the ‘old woman’, as a character found in oral literature where ethics and the search for dignity are essential. Talking about "local matters", in Morvan of 20th -21st, speaking in regional language (patois) and in gentle terms about these old women so different from ourselves, creates a platform of resistance against dominant references and constitutes a collective way to feel free and a helpful diversion to be able to accept History
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Soares, Vivian Cristiany Oliveira. "Histórias e superstições: narrativas e experiências de transformações da cultura popular de Catalão (GO)." Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, 2006. https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/16455.
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This work aims at considering superstitions both in the context social, cultural
changes and as an essential part of human being, since it makes part of culture. We
search to discuss the transformations of superstition in the modern society based on the
oral accounts of people who moved from countryside to the city of Catalão, State of
Goiás. We has tried to identify how these people consider superstitions now and
understand their rural past, marked by oral tradition and popular beliefs, and so to know
how popular culture rereads superstitions in the present. In these individual s speech,
we have noted some conceptions of past countryside/hindrance and present
city/progress which led us to rethink of theses spaces as different and
complimentary.Este trabalho propõe considerar as superstições pelo viés das transformações sociais e culturais e como parte essencial do ser humano, por fazerem parte da cultura que o expressa. Nele, problematizamos a transformação das superstições na sociedade moderna, com base na fala de sujeitos que saíram da zona rural para residir na cidade de Catalão (GO). Buscamos identificar a leitura que fazem das superstições, o passado vivido na zona rural, calcado na oralidade e nas crenças populares, e, assim, saber que releituras das superstições a cultura popular passou a ter. Na fala dos sujeitos, percebemos concepções de passado zona rural, atraso e de presente cidade, modernidade que nos levaram a repensar esses espaços como diferenciados e complementares.
Mestre em História
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Saponov, Mikhail. "Musical Historiography and Oral Tradition." Bärenreiter Verlag, 2000. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A36659.
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Cockell, James Edward. "Schenkerism and the Hungarian oral tradition." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0010/MQ34305.pdf.
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Rimmer, Sharon E. "Sociolinguistic variability in oral narrative." Thesis, Aston University, 1988. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10279/.
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This thesis begins with a sociolinguistic correlational study of three phonetic variables - (h), (t) and (ing) - as used by four occupational groups - nurses, chefs, hairdressers and taxi-drivers. The groups were selected to incorporate three independent variables: sex (male-dominated versus female-dominated occupations); training (length and specialisation - nurses and chefs being more specialised than hairdressers and taxi-drivers) and location (the populations were selected from two cities - Liverpool and Birmingham). Although the correlational work demonstrates intra-sex and occupation consistency in speakers' choice of linguistic variants (females (particularly nurses) being significantly closer to the prestige norm), it is essentially non-explanatory and cannot accout for narrative dynamics and style shift. Therefore, an in-depth qualitative examination of the data (which draws mainly on Narrative and Discourse Analysis) forms the major part of the analysis. The study first analyses features common to all the narratives, direct speech, expressive phonology and linguistic ambiguity emerging as characteristic of all humorous storytelling. Secondly, three major sources of inter-personal variation are invetigated: narrator perspective, sex and occuptational role. Perspective is found to vary with topic and personality, greater narrator involvement coinciding with a higher proportion of internal evaluation devices. Sex differences include topic choice and bonding in the storytelling sessions. Sex differences are also evident in style shifting, where the narrator mimics the voice of a character in the narrative (aodpting segmental and/or prosodic tokens to signal a change of persona). The research finds that female narrators rarely employ segmental accommodation downwards on the social scale (whereas men do), but are on the other hand adept at using prosodic effects for mimicry. Taxi-drivers emerge as the group with the most distinctive narrative flair, a fact which is related to their occupation. The conclusion stresses a need for both quantitative and qualitative approaches to data; the importance of occupational role, as opposed to sex role per se in determining narrative conventions; the view of narrative as a negotiable entity, which is the product of relationships among participants; and the importance of considering the totality of the communicative act.
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Santini, Don Matteu. "A fola corsa trà identità e universalità." Corte, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998CORT0020.
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La tradition orale s'amenuisant en Europe occidentale comme une peau de chagrin, l'empire de l'écrit sur les récits mythiques constitue plus que jamais un miroir déformant dont les chercheurs ont peine à se détourner. Dans cette thèse, nous avons pris le parti de réfléchir sur la pensée mythique corse à partir de son propre discours. Travaillant sur un corpus original de récits mythiques oraux, notre travail s'est organisé en trois temps : une mise au point sur les modèles narratifs et structurels à vocation universelle nous a donné l'occasion de révéler les aspects subjectifs et restrictifs d'une telle approche. Dénonçant l'approche littéraire du mythe qui ne voit dans celui-ci qu'une belle intrigue, nous avons replace les récits dans leurs cadres culturels de transmission pour y révéler une cosmologie seule à même d'éclairer la nature et le discours de ces récits mythiques. Enfin, la narrativité a été disséquée afin de rendre sa place au conteur et à son auditoire, au contexte de la narration, et à la représentation même de ce contexte. La richesse d'informations présentes dans cette narrativité pose la tradition orale comme un mode de transmission dynamique et performant. De même, la pensée mythique nous renvoie à une harmonie entre l'homme et son monde que les tenants modernes du logos ont oublié. La corse cherche aujourd'hui son identité car elle est passée en quelques années d'une civilisation sylvo-agro-pastorale à une civilisation de services sans gérer cette transition. Il nous parait souhaitable qu'elle construise une société ou science et tradition se conjugueraient pour le bien de ses enfants.
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Yamamoto, Kumiko. "The oral background of Persian Epics : storytelling and poetry /." Leiden : Brill, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38998044f.
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Mournet, Terence C. "Oral tradition and literary dependency : variability and stability in the synoptic tradition and Q." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3688/.
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Despite the almost universal recognition that the Jesus tradition was, from its very beginning, oral tradition, scholars have continued to approach the question of Synoptic interrelationships from a strictly literary perspective. This study is an attempt to take seriously the Sitz im Leben within which the Synoptic Gospels were written, and to examine the possible role that oral tradition might have in determining, not only the scope of a Q text, but the way in which we envision the development of the Synoptic tradition. Previous attempts to take seriously the role of oral tradition in the formation of the Synoptic Gospels are examined, exposing the need for a much more careful analysis of the relationship between oral communication and written texts. Following such an analysis, it is suggested that solutions to the Synoptic Problem which do not take into serious account the possible influence of oral tradition in the process of Gospel composition must be deemed less than adequate. Seeking a way forward in the debate, we determined that a more thoroughly thought-through model of how oral communication functions is needed. It is proposed that the genre of folklore, while not replacing traditional literary designations, provides us with another interpretive framework through which we may gain new insight into the development of the Synoptic tradition. The folkloristic characteristics of variability and stability are discussed, followed by the presentation of recent work suggesting that these characteristics are prevalent in the Synoptic tradition. We suggest that recent studies on Q and the Synoptic Problem have not given adequate attention to the internal variability present within double tradition pericopes. A methodology is developed which will allow us to examine how the internal variability within selected double tradition pericopes might, to some extent, reflect the process of tradition transmission which preceded the tradition’s inclusion in a Gospel text. A selection of double tradition pericopes are examined, and the model of tradition transmission proposed by K. E. Bailey and J. D. G. Dunn is evaluated. The study concludes that there is a sufficient convergence of evidence to suggest that such a model is feasible for at least portions of the double tradition.
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Sinclair-Reynolds, Emma. "(Re)writing Pathways : Oral Tradition, Written Tradition, and Identity Construction in Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie." Thesis, Nouvelle Calédonie, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NCAL0066/document.
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Comment les traditions orales kanak pourraient-elles agir au-delà de leurs frontières habituelles et influencer les processus de construction identitaire dans la société néo-calédonienne contemporaine ? Notre travail explore les interactions entre la tradition orale kanak et la tradition écrite néocalédonienne, en examinant les textes de réécriture, ces lieux de rencontre entre traditions qui constituent un espace de patrimoine commun. Cette thèse retrace les chemins d’une histoire, Le Chef et le lézard (dont on trouve de multiples versions dans les différentes traditions orales kanak), dans la tradition écrite. Sont élucidés les contextes historiques, politiques et littéraires des processus de production de versions de l’histoire, afin de mettre en évidence les forces en oeuvre, et d’éclairer la manière dont les représentations qui y figurent pourraient participer aux processus de construction identitaire. Les outils conceptuels employés sont la « réécriture », la « vā » (l’espace relationnel océanien d’échange et de rencontre),ainsi que la littérature comme « outil de renforcement communautaire ». La contribution originale qu'apporte notre travail consiste en démontrant le degré et l’étendue de l’intégration d'une histoire kanak dans le polysystème littéraire néo-calédonien ; en soulignant le rôle actif joué par des acteurs kanak dans les processus de réécriture ; en créant une métaphore étendue géographique du paysage littéraire néo-calédonien ; en témoignant de la richesse des traditions orales et écrites de Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie ; et en constituant une passerelle entre les chercheurs/lecteurs non-francophones et la littérature néo-calédonienneHow might Kanak oral traditions move beyond their usual boundaries and influence identity construction processes in contemporary New Caledonian society? This thesis explores the interactions between Kanak oral tradition and New Caledonian written tradition, by examining the (re)writings that are places of encounter between these traditions, and thus constitute a space of shared heritage. This study traces the pathways taken by a story, Le Chef et le lézard, (a number of versions of which are found in different Kanak oral traditions), as it moves into and within written tradition. The historical, political, and literary contexts of the (re)writing processes that produce versions of Le Chef et le lézard are elucidated, to demonstrate the forces at work and shed light on how the representations that figure in the (re)writings might participate in identity construction processes. The conceptual tools used in the study include: rewriting; vā (the relational space of exchange and encounter found throughout Oceania); and literature as a means of building community. The original contribution of this thesis has been to demonstrate the degree and the extent of the integration of a Kanak story into the New Caledonian literary polysystem; to highlight the active role played by Kanak actors in the rewriting process; to develop anextended geographic metaphor for the New Caledonian literary landscape; to bear witness to the richness of oral and written traditions in Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie; and to create a bridge between non-Francophone researchers/readers and New Caledonian literature (oral and written)
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Alexander, Jamie Kim. "Stories from forest, river and mountain : exploring children's cultural environmental narratives and their role in the transmission of cultural connection to and protection of biodiversity." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015267.
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Preservationist conservation created a legacy of national parks and protected areas that were surrounded by local people dispossessed of their land and denied the rights to use the resources they had previously relied upon. Although conservation is now shifting towards a more participatory approach, research gaps still exist in determining the meaning of 'the environment' and the role of local means of conservation in rural communities in South Africa. This study focused on children's cultural environmental narratives from two rural villages in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Children from grades 4, 7 and 10 were involved in the study, and adult family members, local experts and village elders were included in the study to allow for comparison between children's and adult's narratives and to realise what Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) was being passed on. This thesis considers children's use of the environment for play and their sense of place as key methods in ascertaining children's environmental narratives and perceptions. At both field sites, local experts and community elders possessed a wealth of cultural environmental narratives, but these narratives were not necessarily being passed on. Changing household structures and other socio-economic factors influence cultural environmental practices, which in turn have an impact on the cultural environmental narratives being passed down. In many cases, parents' safety fears strongly impacted upon children's access to the environment, resulting in gendered environmental knowledge. The study compared differing vegetation types and degrees of environmental access. The differing environments produced similar cultural environmental narratives, leading to new understandings in community environment relationships. Children living near the state administered forest had significantly less environmental knowledge, bringing about questions of sustainable bio-cultural diversity in the future. The recognition of cultural environmental values is especially important in the rural areas of South Africa, where unemployment and increased poverty levels have led to greater dependence on natural resources for social, economic and cultural purposes. It is proposed that local cultural environmental narratives and landscape perceptions be included into community conservation and environmental education policies and programmes to provide local solutions to the problem of biodiversity conservation in local contexts.
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Gilabert, Guerrero Roger. "Task Complexity and L2 Narrative Oral Production." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/1662.
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This study explores the impact of manipulating Task Complexity simultaneously along both pre-task planning time and the degree of displaced, past time reference on L2 narrative oral production. By drawing on consolidated psycholinguistic models of language production, the study first explores the similarities and differences between L1 and L2 oral production and examines how language processing for comprehension, production, and learning are mediated by the cognitive processes of attention and memory. Secondly, a definition of task is provided, and the concept of Task Complexity is presented and developed as born from a need to design and sequence tasks in a syllabus in a principled way. Thirdly, a review of options in syllabus design as a consequence of different conceptions about language teaching and learning is provided. The main characteristics of a number of synthetic and analytic syllabi are considered, and this is followed by a review of research into task features. In the fourth place, the specific literature related to planning time and the degree of displaced, past time reference is reviewed, and the questions and four hypotheses of the experiment advanced. The first hypothesis states that providing pre-task planning time will positively affect learners' fluency and structural complexity with no impact on lexical complexity or accuracy. The second hypothesis predicts that increasing Task Complexity along the +/- Here-and-Now variable will have positive consequences for learners' complexity and accuracy but will have detrimental effects on fluency. The third hypothesis foresees a greater impact of planning time in more complex There-and-Then versions of tasks. Finally, the fourth hypothesis predicts that the effects of increasing Task Complexity along the +/- Here-and-Now variable will be enhanced under planned conditions. From a methodological point of view, a repeated measures design is used to obtain production data from 48 subjects with a lower-intermediate level of English, and four levels of Task Complexity which combine the two variables are established. Each learner narrates each of 4 comic strips under a different condition, the sequence of which is controlled by means of a Latin square design. Measures include unpruned Speech Rate A and pruned Speech Rate B for fluency; the percentage of lexical words, the ratio of lexical to function words, and the Guiraud's Index of lexical richness for lexical complexity; the number of S-nodes per T-unit for structural complexity; and the percentage of error-free T-units, the target-like use of articles, the percentage of self-initiated self-repairs, and the ratio of repaired to unrepaired errors for accuracy. Finally, learners' perception of Task Complexity is also analyzed by means of an affective variables questionnaire, in which they are asked about their perception of difficulty, stress, confidence, interest, and motivation. The questionnaire is validated by means of protocol analysis. Results of repeated measures ANOVAs show that planning time generates higher fluency and lexical complexity with no effects for structural complexity or accuracy. Increasing complexity along the +/- Here-and-Now variable has positive effects on accuracy with no significant differences for lexical or structural complexity, and with detrimental effects for fluency. No significant differences are found between the impact of planning time of simple Here-and-Now and complex There-and-Then versions of tasks. The effects of increasing complexity along the There-and-Then variable are enhanced by planning time without reaching statistical significance. Further results show that more complex tasks are perceived as more difficult, stressful, and generate lower levels of confidence without detrimental effects on the perception of interest or motivation. Results are discussed in the light of L1 and L2 production theories as well as competing theories of attention allocation policies during task performance. It is argued that the dimensions of accuracy and complexity can be attended to by learners as long as tasks are kept simple along resource-dispersing dimensions (i.e. planning time) and complex along resource-directing dimensions (i.e. +/- here-and-now). It is finally argued that Task Complexity is an important construct for task design and task sequencing which can be manipulated to obtain specific effects on L2 production and, potentially, learning.KEYWORDS: Cognitive complexity, Tasks, Syllabus design, Oral production, Narrative, SLA
Aquest treball investiga l'impacte de la manipulació simultània del temps de planificació i el grau de desplaçament en el temps i l'espai sobre la producció narrativa oral en l'L2. En primer lloc, i basant-se en models psicolingüístics consolidats de producció oral, el treball examina les similituds i les diferències entre la producció oral en l'L1 i en l'L2, i analitza com els processos d'atenció i memòria condicionen el processament per a la comprensió, la producció i l'aprenentatge del llenguatge. En segon lloc, es defineix el concepte de tasca i es desenvolupa el concepte de complexitat cognitiva, el qual sorgeix de la necessitat de dissenyar tasques i organitzar-les en un programa de manera raonada. En tercer lloc, es fa una revisió de les opcions de disseny de programes d'ensenyament de llengua que emanen de diferents concepcions sobre l'ensenyament i l'aprenentatge. Es consideren les principals característiques d'una sèrie de programes sintètics i analítics, i es fa una revisió de les investigacions referides a diferents trets de les tasques. En quart lloc, es presenten el estudis que es refereixen específicament a les variables de planificació i +/- aquí-i-ara, i s'avancen les preguntes i les quatre hipòtesis d'aquest estudi. La primera hipòtesi afirma que proporcionar temps de planificació afectarà positivament la fluïdesa i la complexitat estructural de la producció dels parlants, sense tenir cap impacte significatiu sobre la seva complexitat lèxica ni la seva correcció. La segona hipòtesi planteja que augmentar la complexitat cognitiva de la tasca forçant la narració en l'allà-i-llavors tindrà conseqüències positives per a la complexitat i la correcció, però negatives per a la fluïdesa. La tercera hipòtesi preveu un impacte més gran del temps de planificació sobre la producció en les tasques cognitivament més complexes. La quarta hipòtesi suggereix que l'impacte de l'augment de la complexitat cognitiva sobre la producció serà més gran quan hi ha hagut temps de planificació. Metodològicament, s'utilitza un disseny de mesures repetides per a l'obtenció de les narratives orals de 48 subjectes d'un nivell d'anglès intermig-baix, i s'estableixen 4 nivells de complexitat cognitiva que combinen les dues variables. Cada estudiant narra cada història sota cadascuna de les condicions, les quals es presenten en seqüències diferents mitjançant un disseny de quadres llatins. Les mesures inclouen: per a la fluïdesa, el nombre de síl·labes per minut de la transcripció exacta i el nombre de síl.labes per minut de la transcripció depurada; per a la complexitat lèxica, el percentatge de mots lèxics, la ratio de mots lèxics respecte dels funcionals i l'índex de Guiraud de riquesa lèxica; per a la complexitat estructural, el nombre de nodes verbals per cada unitat T; i per a la correcció, el percentatge d'unitats T sense errors, l'ús a nivell nadiu dels articles, el percentatge d'autocorreccions i la ratio d'errors corregits respecte dels no corregits. La percepció subjectiva dels estudiants respecte de la complexitat cognitiva de les tasques es mesura amb un qüestionari de variables afectives, el qual demana als estudiants per la seva percepció de la dificultat, l'estrès, la confiança, l'interès i la motivació respecte de cada tasca. El qüestionari es valida mitjançant una anàlisi de protocol que investiga la interpretació de les variables afectives per part dels estudiants. Els resultats dels tests ANOVA de mesures repetides demostren que proporcionar temps de planificació té un impacte positiu sobre la fluïdesa i la complexitat lèxica de la producció dels parlants de l'L2. L'augment de la complexitat cognitiva respecte de la variable +/- aquí-i-ara té efectes positius sobre la correcció lingüística sense produir efectes significatius per a la complexitat estructural ni lèxica, i amb efectes negatius per a la fluïdesa. No es troben diferències significatives de l'efecte de la planificació entre tasques simple en l'aquí-i-ara, i les complexes en l'allà-i-llavors. Els efectes de l'augment de la complexitat cognitiva amb la variable +/- aquí-i-ara s'incrementen sota condicions de planificació sense arribar a nivells significatius. Resultats addicionals demostren que les tasques més complexes cognitivament es perceben com a més difícils, estressants, i generen nivells més baixos de confiança sense afectar la percepció del seu interès o la seva motivació. Els resultats s'expliquen a la llum de teories de producció del llenguatge en l'L1 i l'L2, així com en funció de teories que difereixen en la concepció de com l'atenció funciona durant la producció. S'argumenta que les dimensions de complexitat lingüística i correcció poden ser ateses simultàniament sempre i quan les tasques siguin simples pel que fa a la planificació i complexes pel que fa a complexitat cognitiva (és a dir, en l'allà-i-llavors). Finalment, es defensa que la complexitat cognitiva de les tasques és un constructe empíricament testable i útil per al disseny i la seqüenciació de les tasques en un programa d'ensenyament. La complexitat cognitiva de les tasques pot ser manipulada per tal d'obtenir efectes específics per a la producció i, potencialment, per a l'aprenentatge.
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Njopa-Kaba, Grace A. "African folklore and oral narrative in Jamaica /." Yaoundé : University of Yaoundé, Department of African literature, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37691371t.
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Lander, Rachel. "Teaching narrative structure to children with poor oral narrative skills in schools." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/359662/.
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The review discusses the importance of narrative structure for cognitive development and psychological health. Narrative structure is regarded as representing and developing internal cognitive structures, known as narrative schemas. The components of narrative schemas and thus the structure of narratives are described as a set of components collectively known as ‘story grammar’. Models of the development of narrative structure are compared and contrasted and discussed in relation to additional cognitive and linguistic components required to produce a narrative. Individual differences in narrative structure are discussed in terms of their social and environmental origins; specifically due to the quality of parental co-constructed narrative conversations and socio-economic status. The relationship between narrative structure and developmental outcomes are then explored; notably reading comprehension and behavioural adjustment. A critical review of school group interventions based on the principles of narrative structure is then provided. Finally, the current literature is summarised, providing suggestions for future research. The empirical paper evaluated the effectiveness of a published oral narrative intervention by Shanks (2001) on measures of Oral Narration and Narrative Comprehension for children aged 6-7 years with poor oral narrative skills. The intervention group (N=12) showed a significant increase in Oral Narration score between pre-test and post-test compared to a wait-list control group (N=11). Between pre-test and follow-up measures that were taken 6 weeks after the end of the intervention, no significant increases in Oral Narration were found between groups. The intervention group also showed no significant increases on Narrative Comprehension between pre-test and post-test or between pre-test and follow-up. The correlation between Oral Narration and behaviour was explored. Significant negative correlations were found between Oral Narration and teacher measures of behaviour at pre-test and follow-up, specifically regarding hyperactivity and inattention. The results question the long-term benefits of the intervention and suggestions for future research are provided.
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Yen, Ping-Chiu. "Chinese demon tales : meanings and parallels in oral tradition /." New York ; London : Garland publ, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37495321w.
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Allison, Christine. "Views of history and society in Yezidi oral tradition." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362855.
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The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority living mainly in Northern Iraq. In the past their religion forbade literacy: thus their accounts of their history and their descriptions of their society ha ve been preserved orally. This thesis considers how the Yezidis use oral literature. or verbal art. to represent themselves and their past. It is based largely on fieldwork carried out in Northern Iraq. The theoretical perspective of this work combines elements of both literary and social studies by considering both text and social context. The genre of a tradition has major implications for its content; three genres considered in detail are lyrical song. prose narrative and extemporised lament. Yezidi discourse about the past stresses their distinctive identity and their endurance against adversity and persecution. This is reflected in the oral traditions. especially in the lyrical song. which is performed at festivals and is extremely popular; prose narratives of events predating the immediate past. on the other hand. are in decline. Most love songs and stories feature historical figures; the performance of lyrical love songs. many of which depict conflict between the wishes of the individual and the rules of a society where marriage is arranged. provides an outlet for the audience's own emotions. Laments are performed by women. Using traditional imagery. they are a vehicle for the expression of a variety of emotions by the performer. Their performance is a social duty and is likely to remain so. The texts included in this work comprise variants of two historical themes. Feriq Pa~a and DawLide Dawtid; variants of a theme of love, Derwe~e C E.,di. and examples of women's lament. both semi-professional and personal. Some of these were transcribed from material collected during fieldwork; all were translated for this thesis. An appendix lists performers and informants.
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Zizz, John Thomas. "Oral communication and the psyche of an aural community, as seen in Acts 2:14-41." Johnson City, TN : Emmanuel School of Religion, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.062-0306.
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Zizz, John Thomas. "Oral communication and the psyche of an aural community, as seen in Acts 2:14-41." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p062-0306.
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Winger, Thomas M. "Orality as the key to understanding apostolic proclamation in the epistles." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Henaut, Barry W. "Oral tradition and the Gospels : the problem of Mark 4 /." Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36666152f.
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Sterling, Shirley. "The grandmother stories : oral tradition and the transmission of culture." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25168.pdf.
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Ramey, Peter A. "Studies in oral tradition history and prospects for the future /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5003.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 1, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.