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Interactive features in Yucatec Mayan narratives1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Allan F. Burns
Allan F. Burns
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University of Florida
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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.)

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Language in Society , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , December 1980, pp. 307 - 319
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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