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Explorations in Semantic Parallelism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (448 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925021066
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Explorations in Semantic ParallelismDDC classification:
  • 401.43
LOC classification:
  • P325 -- .F69 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Explorations in Semantic Parallelism -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Comparative Issues -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Roman Jakobson and the comparative study of parallelism -- 3. Trajectories in the continuing study of parallelism -- 4. Semantic parallelism in Rotenese ritual language -- 5. 'Our ancestors spoke in pairs' -- 6. On binary categories and primary symbols -- 7. Category and complement -- 8. Exploring oral formulaic language -- The Traditional Oral Canon -- 9. Genealogies of the Sun and Moon -- 10. Manu Kama's road, Tepa Nilu's path -- 11. Genealogy and topogeny -- 12. Blood-red millet: An origin narrative -- 13. Admonitions of the ancestors: Giving voice to the deceased -- 14. To the aroma of the name: The celebration of a ritual of rock and tree -- The Christian Oral Canon -- 15. The appropriation of Biblical knowledge in the creation of new narratives of origin -- 16. Adam and Eve on the island of Rote -- 17. The Rotenese sermon as a linguistic performance -- 18. Present and future research -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Petrus Malesi's Recitation Of 'The Coming Of Rice' -- Index.
Summary: This collection of eighteen papers explores issues in the study of semantic parallelism -- a world-wide tradition in the composition of oral poetry. It is concerned with both comparative issues and the intensive study of a single living poetic tradition of composition in strict canonical parallelism.
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Explorations in Semantic Parallelism -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Comparative Issues -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Roman Jakobson and the comparative study of parallelism -- 3. Trajectories in the continuing study of parallelism -- 4. Semantic parallelism in Rotenese ritual language -- 5. 'Our ancestors spoke in pairs' -- 6. On binary categories and primary symbols -- 7. Category and complement -- 8. Exploring oral formulaic language -- The Traditional Oral Canon -- 9. Genealogies of the Sun and Moon -- 10. Manu Kama's road, Tepa Nilu's path -- 11. Genealogy and topogeny -- 12. Blood-red millet: An origin narrative -- 13. Admonitions of the ancestors: Giving voice to the deceased -- 14. To the aroma of the name: The celebration of a ritual of rock and tree -- The Christian Oral Canon -- 15. The appropriation of Biblical knowledge in the creation of new narratives of origin -- 16. Adam and Eve on the island of Rote -- 17. The Rotenese sermon as a linguistic performance -- 18. Present and future research -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Petrus Malesi's Recitation Of 'The Coming Of Rice' -- Index.

This collection of eighteen papers explores issues in the study of semantic parallelism -- a world-wide tradition in the composition of oral poetry. It is concerned with both comparative issues and the intensive study of a single living poetic tradition of composition in strict canonical parallelism.

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