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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gounder, Farzana (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Studies in narrative ; v. 21.
Temas:
Sociolinguistics > Pacific Area.
Narrative inquiry (Research method) > Pacific Area.
Identity (Philosophical concept) > Social aspects.
Intercultural communication > Social aspects.
Intercultural communication > Pacific Area.
Sociolinguistique > Pacifique, Région du.
Histoires de vie > Pacifique, Région du.
Identité > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Intercultural communication
Intercultural communication > Social aspects
Narrative inquiry (Research method)
Sociolinguistics
Pacific Area
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  • Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Editor's note
  • Glossing abbreviations
  • About the authors
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Part I. Inside the storyworld
  • 1. Moving through space and (not?) time: North Australian Dreamtime narratives
  • 1. Dreamtime stories of Australia
  • 2. Spatial and motion structure in Jaminjung narratives
  • 3. Travel through time and space: Kriol narratives
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 2. We've never seen a cyclone like this: Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aul
  • Dividuals and individuals in Melanesia
  • Methods of enquiry
  • Cyclone Ivy and the Aulua community
  • Possible strategies for dividualist narrators
  • Analysis of the narratives
  • Features of dividual narration
  • An individualist narration?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II. Telling narratives, constructing identities
  • 3. Local ecological knowledge in Mortlockese narrative: Stance, identity, and knowing
  • Pakin Atoll
  • Knowledge, identity, and stance
  • Analysis
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix
  • 4. Small stories and associated identity in Neverver
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Neverver speakers
  • 3. Person reference possibilities in Neverver
  • 4. Person reference work in small stories
  • 5. Person reference and identity
  • References
  • 5. "Sometime is lies": Narrative and identity in two mixed-origin island languages
  • Approaching island narratives
  • Constraints on narratives
  • Leaving the narratives behind
  • References
  • Part III. Narrative memories, cultures and identities
  • 6. Constructing Kanaka Maoli identity through narrative: A glimpse into native Hawaiian narratives a
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Kanaka Maoli identity constructed through mo'olelo and ka'ao.
  • 3. Establishing Hawaiian literacy
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • 7. 'Stories of long ago' and the forces of modernity in South Pentecost
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Dun na gol
  • variation
  • 3. Chief Telkon Watas' dun na gol
  • 4. From orality to written text
  • 5. Variations and values
  • 6. Concluding comments
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 8. Australian South Sea Islanders' narratives of belonging
  • Narratives by historians
  • The islander voice
  • Political and government narratives
  • The media narrative
  • Explaining the slavery narrative
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 9. Avatars of Fiji's Girmit narrative
  • Indian indenture: Beginnings
  • Indenture: Social and moral conditions
  • Post-indenture narrative
  • Revival of interest in indenture discourse
  • Indenture narrative beyond servitude
  • Girmit beyond Fiji
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 10. Samoan narratives: Sociocultural perspectives
  • Traditional narratives
  • Telling stories to learn
  • Contemporary media
  • Literary writing and recording of stories
  • Samoan migrant writing
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • 11. "[P]ulling tomorrow's sky from [the] kete": Culture-specific narrative representations of re/mem
  • Structure, characterisation strategies and character constellation
  • Storytelling and the oral traditions
  • Fight for the land and the voice of the earth
  • References
  • 12. Beyond exile: The Ramayana as a living narrative among Indo-Fijians in Fiji and New Zealand
  • The Ramcaritmanas in Fiji: The text and its interpreters
  • Fellowship with the Virtuous: Ramayana recital and ethnic identity
  • Encountering the Indian "other": The Ramayan mandali in New Zealand
  • Beyond exile: A living narrative
  • References
  • 13. Embodied silent narratives of masculinities: Some perspectives from Guam Chamorros
  • 1. The Chamorro masculine pre-Hispanic body.
  • 2. Mythical and religious narratives of the body
  • 3. Silent martial narratives of the (de)-colonized body
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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