Verbal Art As Performance

Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478607984

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Verbal Art as Performance by Richard Bauman Pdf

The cross-disciplinary and integrative nature of sociolinguistics is clearly evidenced in this highly regarded, insightful volume. Baumans holistic study brings together the separate fields of folklore, anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism as they focus on verbal art. The work represented here is a clear assembly of perspectives and methodology of these disciplines from the viewpoint of performanceartistic action and artistic event. The basic principles underlying sociolinguistics (patterned variability and context as revealed through language) provide the coherence. In addition to Baumans useful conceptual framework, four lively, informative essays by leading scholars are included that clarify, illustrate, and amplify in an effort to treat verbal art as performance.

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134945382

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Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention. Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral form and their performances, treating both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which oral texts and performances can be observed, collected or analysed. It also relates to those current controversies about the nature of performance and of 'text'. Designed as a practical and systematic introduction to the processes and problems of researching in this area, this is an invaluable guide for students, and lecturers of anthropology and cultural studies and also for general readers who are interested in enjoying oral literature for its own sake.

Author : Charles L. Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172110659612

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Competence in Performance by Charles L. Briggs Pdf

In Competence in Performance, Charles L. Briggs explores the nature of the gift of oral performance and the competence that underlies that ability. His study focuses on rural Hispanic communities in northern New Mexico. There, individuals, particularly older people, are highly respected for their ability to use language both beautifully and persuasively, prompting their listeners to look beyond appearances to grasp the deeper meaning of the performance. Briggs elucidates the contributions of each genre--proverbs, scriptural allusions, jokes, legends, treasure tales, hymns and prayers--to the Mexicans' struggle to survive as a community, showing how the meaning of a given performance arises from a creative interaction between the worlds of reality and imagination. The author argues that the differing ways in which each performance, performer, and genre relate text and context underlie the power and creativity of verbal art and he suggests that analyzing this process will provide crucial insights into the nature of communicative competence in general. Competence in Performance will be of interest to scholars and students of folklore, anthropology, linguistics, and oral history, was well as ethnomethodology and literary criticism.

Author : James Bradley Wells
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0674036271

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Pindar's Verbal Art by James Bradley Wells Pdf

Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. Wells offers a new take on old Pindaric questions: genre, unity of the victory song, tradition, and epinician performance.

Author : Richard Bauman,Barbara A. Babcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:797060212

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Verbal Art as Performance by Richard Bauman,Barbara A. Babcock Pdf

Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052131111X

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Story, Performance, and Event by Richard Bauman Pdf

An analysis of Texan oral narratives that focuses on the significance of their social context. Although the tales are all from Texas, they are considered representative of oral storytelling traditions in their relationships between story, performance and event.

Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405143615

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A World of Others' Words by Richard Bauman Pdf

Drawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer a sparkling look at intertextuality as communicative practice. A fascinating perspective on intertextuality: the idea that written and spoken texts speak to one another, e.g. through genre or allusions. Presents a series of ethnographic case studies to illustrate the topic. Draws on a broad range of oral performances and literary records from across the world. The author’s introduction sets a framework for the analysis of genre, perform and intertextuality. Shows how performers blend genres, e.g., telling stories about riddles or legends about magical verses, or constructing sales pitches.

Author : Lee Haring
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512816693

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Verbal Arts in Madagascar by Lee Haring Pdf

A history of the encounter between Europeans and the colonized people with a groundbreaking analysis of four types of Malagasy folklore: riddles, proverbs, hainteny (dialogic exchanges of traditional metaphors), and oratory.

Author : Jonathan Webster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783642550195

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Understanding Verbal Art by Jonathan Webster Pdf

This book applies linguistic analysis to the poetry of Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, a Singaporean poet and leading figure in Commonwealth literature. The work explores how the poet combines grammar and metaphor to make meaning, making the reader aware of the linguistic resources developed by Thumboo as the basis for his unique technique. The author approaches the poems from a functional linguistic perspective, investigating the multiple layers of meaning and metaphor which go into producing these highly textured, grammatically intricate works of verbal art. The approach is based on Systematic Functional Theory, which assists with investigating how the poet uses language (grammar) to craft his text, in a playful way that reflects a love of the language. The multilingual and multicultural experiences of the poet are seen to have contributed to his uniquely creative use of language. This work demonstrates how Systematic Functional Theory, with its emphasis on exploring the semogenic (meaning-making) power of language, provides the handle we need to better understand poetic works as intentional acts of meaning. The verbal art of Edwin Thumboo illustrate Barthes' point that "Bits of code, formulae, rhythmic models, fragments of social languages, etc. pass into the text and are redistributed within it, for there is always language before and around the text." With a focus on meaning, this functional analysis of poetry offers an insightful look at the linguistic basis of Edwin Thumboo's poetic technique. The work will appeal to scholars with an interest in linguistic analysis and poetry from the Commonwealth and new literatures, and it is also well suited to support courses on literary stylistics or text linguistics.

Author : William Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443887748

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Shakespeare's Verbal Art by William Bellamy Pdf

Shakespeare’s Verbal Art is a profoundly important study of the newly rediscovered anagrams that lie hidden below the surface of all Shakespearean texts. It explains the essential role played by these concealed figures in Classical and Renaissance poetry, demonstrating the revelatory function of anagram by reference to the close analysis of a wide range of examples. Special attention is given to Shakespeare’s use of these sub-textual devices to clarify meaning and intention. The focus is first on Shake-speares Sonnets of 1609, and secondly on Hamlet, Othello and Twelfth Night, all of which are found to be composed around the concealed anagrams that render these works self-interpreting. A new kind of language use is revealed, in terms of which pre-Enlightenment text is envisaged as existing in two distinct dimensions – the overt and the covert – both of which must be read if any particular poem or play is to be fully understood. In effect, a wholly new set of Shakespearean texts is made available to the reader, who will find Shakespeare’s Verbal Art an essential guide to the new discoveries. The book will also be indispensable in the fields of Classical and Renaissance literature, linguistics, poetics, rhetoric, and literary history, and in relation to the pre-Enlightenment text in general, and will interest both the specialist and the general reader.

Author : Charles L. Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : IND:30000111327205

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Competence in Performance by Charles L. Briggs Pdf

In Competence in Performance, Charles L. Briggs explores the nature of the gift of oral performance and the competence that underlies that ability. His study focuses on rural Hispanic communities in northern New Mexico. There, individuals, particularly older people, are highly respected for their ability to use language both beautifully and persuasively, prompting their listeners to look beyond appearances to grasp the deeper meaning of the performance. Briggs elucidates the contributions of each genre--proverbs, scriptural allusions, jokes, legends, treasure tales, hymns and prayers--to the Mexicans' struggle to survive as a community, showing how the meaning of a given performance arises from a creative interaction between the worlds of reality and imagination. The author argues that the differing ways in which each performance, performer, and genre relate text and context underlie the power and creativity of verbal art and he suggests that analyzing this process will provide crucial insights into the nature of communicative competence in general. Competence in Performance will be of interest to scholars and students of folklore, anthropology, linguistics, and oral history, was well as ethnomethodology and literary criticism.

Author : Regna Darnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803266359

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American Anthropology, 1971-1995 by Regna Darnell Pdf

American anthropology in the late twentieth century interrogated and depicted the worldsøof others, past and present, in subtle and incisive ways while increasingly questioning its own authority to do so. Marxist, symbolic, and structuralist thought shaped the fieldwork and conclusions of many researchers around the globe. Practicing anthropology blossomed and grew rapidly as a subdiscipline in its own right. There emerged a keener appreciation of both the history of the discipline and the histories of those studied. Archaeologists witnessed a resurgence of interest in the concept of culture. The American Anthropologist also made systematic efforts to represent the field as a whole, with biological anthropology and linguistics particularly adept at crossing subdiscipline boundaries. Proliferation of specialized areas within sociocultural anthropology encouraged work across the subdisciplines. The thirty selections in this volume reflect the notable trends and accomplishments in American anthropology during the closing decades of the millennium. An introduction by Regna Darnell offers a historical background and critical context that enable readers to better understand the changes and continuity in American anthropology during this time.

Author : Paschal Kyoore
Publisher : International Folkloristics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Dagaaba (African people)
ISBN : 1433147041

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Dagara Verbal Art by Paschal Kyoore Pdf

Dagara Verbal Art examines verbal art among the Dagara people of West Africa. It provides invaluable primary material for research, and does a close analysis of folktale narration, proverb usage, riddling, chanting of dirges and popular songs by male and female praise singers, and xylophone music performance as forms of verbal art. Folktales are characterized by wit, humor, and satire, and songs within tales are a mise-en-abyme, a story within a story that entertains but also enhances the narration through the participation of the audience in the performance. Moreover, Dagara tales are didactic and moralizing as a way of controlling the behavior of individuals in society. Riddling entertains but also helps to develop the cognitive abilities of children, and demands critical and logical thinking on the part of the participating audience. Proverbs were collected in context and analyzed closely for their meaning. The study also examines closely the art of speech-making, and concludes that a good locutor knows what figures of speech to use in order to enhance communication with the audience. This study concludes that an authentic theory of Dagara--and for that matter, generally African--folklore must be grounded on a thorough knowledge of the traditions, rites and rituals, and the socio-political structures that have held the society together in its historical experience. Dagara Verbal Art is an important resource for areas such as African studies, African literature and folklore, folklore in general, anthropology, culture studies, ethnomusicology, ethnic studies, and gender studies, among others.

Author : Hubert Knoblauch,Helga Kotthoff
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3823357093

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Verbal Art Across Cultures by Hubert Knoblauch,Helga Kotthoff Pdf

Author : Dennis L. Weeks,Jane Susan Hoogestraat
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1575910098

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Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts by Dennis L. Weeks,Jane Susan Hoogestraat Pdf

Walter Ong pioneered the study of how orality and literacy mutually enrich each other in the evolution of human consciousness, arguing that verbal communication moves from orality to literacy and on to what he has termed the "secondary orality" of radio and television. The original essays in this volume explore the implications of Ong's work across the diverse fields of cultural history, literary theory, theology, philosophy, and anthropology. These scholars maintain that Ong's view of orality not only changes our readings of ancient and medieval texts, but that it also changes our understanding of the differing epistemologies of oral and literate cultures and of the coexistence of the oral and literate within a given culture.