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Narrative discourse

Index of SIL publications on Narrative discourse listed by country.

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General works

• ASHDOWN, Shelley Gay, author. 2006. "Investigating world view through narrative analysis."  
• BAILEY, Nicholas A., author. 1994. "Some literary and grammatical aspects of genealogies in Genesis."
• BARTSCH, Carla, author. 1997. The prodigal son and his father: Can someone’s relative be a main character?.
• BUTH, Randall J., author. 1981. "On Levinsohn’s ‘development units’."
• BUTH, Randall J., author. 1992. "Oυν, Δε, Kαι and asyndeton in John’s Gospel."
• CARTER, Robert George, author. 1996. A textlinguistic analysis of a narrative: The book of Jonah.
• FLOOR, Sebastian, author. 2004. From information structure, topic and focus, to theme in Biblical Hebrew narrative.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2008. "Storytelling: some frequently asked questions."  
• HANSFORD, Gillian F., author. 1998. Review of: Lushootseed texts: an introduction to Puget Salish narrative aesthetics, Crisca Bierwert, editor.
• HAYS, J. Daniel, author. 1992. "Quotation formulas in the Abraham narratives."
• LEE, S. Noah, author. 2003. "Cohesion in the books of the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1990. "An apparatus for the description of participant reference in narrative discourse."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1995. "Genesis as soap opera: Some observations about storytelling in the Hebrew Bible."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1996. "Salience schemes for narrative discourse: some broader concerns."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1999. "A top-down, template-driven narrative analysis, illustrated by application to Mark's gospel."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1999. "Mark 5.1-43: Generating the complexity of a narrative from its most basic elements."
• MANABE, Takashi, author. 1984. "Authorial intent and intents of participants in a narrative text."  
• MILLER, Cynthia L., author. 1994. "Introducing direct discourse in Biblical Hebrew narrative."
• NICCACCI, Alviero, author. 1994. "Analysis of Biblical narrative."
• WENDLAND, Ernst R., author. 1984. "Biblical Hebrew narrative structure."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• HARRISON, Annette, author. 2004. The use of proper nouns as an index of group identity in Fulfulde personal narratives.

Cameroon

• JARVIS, Elizabeth, author. 1991. "Tense and aspect in Podoko narrative and procedural discourse."  
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H.; POHLIG, James N., authors. 1994. "Demonstrative adjectives in Mofu-Gudur folktales."
• MFONYAM, Joseph N., author. 1994. "Prominence in Bafut: Syntactic and pragmatic devices."
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1979-05. Participants in Gunu narrative discourse.  
• SPREDA, Klaus W., author. 1994. "Notes on markers of parallelism in Metaʼ."
• TAYLOR, Carolyn, author. 1994. "Participant reference in Nɔmaandɛ narrative discourse."

Côte d’Ivoire

• LEENHOUTS, Ingeborg C., author. 1983. Function of the verb in Tenhe narrative discourse.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• CULLEN, Wendy Ruth, author. 1999. Tense and aspect in Lubwisi narrative discourse.

Ethiopia

• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1992. "Towards a more adequate approach to ’focus’ phenomena (Review of ’Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies, by Klaus Wedekind)."
• WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1990. Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies.

Ghana

• JORDAN, Dean, author. 1978. "Nafaara tense-aspect in the folk tale."  

Mozambique

• FLOOR, Sebastian, author. 2004. "As orações relativas nos textos narrativos em Mwani."
• FLOOR, Sebastian, author. 2004. "Tense-aspect switching in Mwani: the consecutive -ki- and the perfect verbs in narrative."

Niger

• HARRISON, Annette, author. 2004. The use of proper nouns as an index of group identity in Fulfulde personal narratives.

Nigeria

• CAIN, Kathy M., author. 1991. "An introduction to the distribution of stative clause types in Hausa narrative."
• FOLLINGSTAD, Carl M., author. 1994. "Thematic development and prominence in Tyap discourse."
• HARRISON, Annette, author. 2004. The use of proper nouns as an index of group identity in Fulfulde personal narratives.
• MOOMO, David O., author. 1998. Quotation forms in Ebira narrative.
• RAND, Sharon R., author. 1991. "An analysis of repartee structure in Hausa narrative discourse."

Sudan

• MOHAMMED, Mahmud; WEDEKIND, Klaus, authors. 2008. "A Beja saga in four dialects: lexical and other differences."
• SCHRÖDER, Martin, author. 1989. "The Toposa verb in narrative discourse."
• WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 2006. "Beja narratives: pursuit of participants and analysis of aspects."

Tanzania

• STEGEN, Oliver, author. 2004. Editing Rangi narratives: a pilot study in literature production.  
• STEGEN, Oliver, author. 2006. Lexical density in oral versus written Rangi texts.  

Togo

• GASSER, Marcel, author. 1988. "The use of completive and incompletive aspect in Nawdm narrative discourse."
• HIGDON, Lee M., author. 1998. "The line of importance in Gangam narrative discourse."

Uganda

• CULLEN, Wendy Ruth, author. 1999. Tense and aspect in Lubwisi narrative discourse.

Americas

Bolivia

• PRETTOL, Kenneth A., author. 1986. "Variacion del orden de las palabras, elipsis y cambio de tiempo en el discurso narrativo en esse ejja."

Brazil

• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. Available: 2008; Created: 1976. Participants in Guarani narrative.  
• GREEN, Diana, author. 1979. "Usos da fala direta no discurso Palikur."
• KOEHN, Edward H., author. 1976. "The historical tense in Apalaí narrative."
• PEASE, Helen, author. 1979. "Repetições em Tenharim (Parintintín) narrativa."

Canada

• SPIELMANN, Roger W., author. 1987. "Collateral information in narrative discourse."
• SPIELMANN, Roger W., author. 1988. "Response preferences in narrative discourse."

Chile

• WEBER, Robert L., author. 2003. Morfología verbal del Rapa Nui, lengua polinésica de Isla de Pascua, y su función en la narración.

Colombia

• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H.; SCHÖTTELNDREYER, Mareike, authors. 1976. "The Catío folktale as a play in acts and scenes."

Guatemala

• HENNE, Marilyn G., author. 1984. "Hacia un entendimiento de los pareados en el idioma y la cultura Quiche."
• LANGAN, Katherine, author. 1989. "Aspectos del discurso en un cuento folklórico de pocomam oriental."

Mexico

• BISHOP, Ruth G., author. 1979. "Tense-aspect in Totonac narrative discourse."  
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1996. "What good are locationals, anyway?."
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 2004. "Speakers, hearers and Cora 'ku'."
• COLEMAN, Ned R.; JONES, Linda K., authors. 1979. "Towards a discourse perspective of modes and tenses in Kickapoo narratives."  
• DIETERMAN, Julia Irene, author. 1998. "Participant reference in Isthmus Mixe narrative discourse."
• ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1984. "The use of the passive in Sierra Popoluca discourse."
• HARRIS, Larry R., author. 1995. Some features of narrative discourse in Santiago Nuyoo Mixtec.  
• HOPKINS, Mary L., author. 1995. Narrative peak in Xanaguía Zapotec.  
• MARTÍNEZ, Valeria D. de, author. 1995. Who’s who in Quiatoni Zapotec narratives.  
• OLIVE, Julie Nan, author. 1995. Speech verbs in Xanaguía Zapotec narrative.  
• REED, Ralph T., author. 1995. Some not so ‘san’guine discourse particles in Southeastern Puebla náhuatl narratives.  
• WILLIAMS, Judith, author. 2008. Grammatical encoding of participants in Mixtec of Tezoatlán.  

Peru

• AGNEW, Arlene, compiler. 1982. Narraciones de los Culina.  
• BENSON, Janice, author. 1996. "El aspecto perfectivo en la narrativa del quechua de Huamalíes."  
• BERGLI, Ågot; COOMBS, Heidi, editors. 2008. Estudios quechuas II.  
• BUCKINGHAM, Andrew, author. 1996. "Usos del tiempo presente en los textos orales narrativos."  
• EAKIN, Lucille, author. 1988. "La ubicación de la acción en la narrativa yaminahua."
• HEITZMAN, Allene, author. 1991. "Tiempo y lugar en la narrativa del ashéninca pajonalino."
• LARSON, Mildred L., author. 1985. Funciones del discurso directo en narraciones Aguaruna.  
• LOWE, Ivan; WISE, Mary Ruth, authors. 1996. "Grupos de permutación en el discurso."  
• MONTAG, Richard, author. 1998. A tale of Pudicho’s people: Cashinahua narrative accounts of European contact in the 20th century.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1992. "Narrative discontinuity versus continuity in Yagua."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1993. "On the function of word order in Yagua narrative."
• TOEDTER, Christa, author. 1989. "Análisis de un texto narrativo en el quechua del Pastaza."
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 1992. "Focus of attention in narrative text and word order typology."
• WROUGHTON, James F., author. 2008. "Usya, texto narrativo del quechua de Pomabamba."

Saint Lucia

• FRANK, David B., compiler. 1990. Six St. Lucian French Creole narrative texts with interlinear translation.

United States

• LEMAN, Elena M., author. 1991. Word order of major constituents in Cheyenne narratives.
• LEMAN, Elena M., author. 1999. Cheyenne Major Constituent Order.  

Venezuela

• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 2006. "A contrastive study of Panare oral and written narratives."

Asia

India

• CHRISTIAN, Immanuel G.; CHRISTIAN, Violet, authors. 1990. "Verb analysis of Garhwali narrative discourse."
• EDWARD, George; EDWARD, Premila, authors. 1990. "A storyline scheme and participant reference in Malto narrative discourse."
• KOTIAN, Noel; KOTIAN, Yashoda, authors. 1990. "Storyline scheme and participant reference in Korku narrative discourse."
• PATEL, Victoria Williams, author. 1990. "The description of third person identification and reference in Rajput Garasia narrative."
• SOUNDARARAJ, Joseph; SOUNDARARAJ, Omana, authors. 1990. "Storyline scheme and participant reference in Bison-Horn Madiya narratives."

Indonesia

• BERRY, Christine, author. 1998. "The art of the storyteller in Abun society."
• OGURI, Hiroko, author. 1985. "Main verb forms in Isirawa narratives."
• OGURI, Hiroko, author. 1986. "Adversative relations in Isirawa narrative discourse."
• REIMER, Martha, author. 1985. "The functions of ‘oun’ in the Gospel of John."
• SHELDEN, Deidre B., author. 1997. Interjections: Explicating speaker attitude.
• STERNER, Joyce K., author. 1994. Why analyze folktales? or what Came the female cannibal taught me.

Kyrgyzstan

• DAVLETOV, Mukhtar; WALKWITZ, Edward R., authors. 2002. "The use of tense/aspect in two Kyrgyz stories."

Laos

• OSBORNE, Rosalind Anne, author. 2010. Who’s who in Kmhmu' : referring expressions and participant identification in selected Kmhmu' narrative texts.  

Malaysia

• HURLBUT, Hope M., author. 1979. "Some features of narrative discourse in Kadazan."
• KING, Julie K., author. 1991. "Thematic continuity and development in Tombonuo narrative discourse."
• KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1991. "The event line in Kimaragang narrative."
• MOODY, David C., author. 1991. "Continuity and development in Idaʼan narrative discourse."

Pakistan

• HALE, Austin; TRAIL, Ronald L., authors. 1995. A rhetorical structure analysis of a Kalasha narrative.
• RADLOFF, Carla F.; SHAKIL Ahmad Shakil, authors. 1998. Folktales in the Shina of Gilgit (text, grammatical analysis and commentary).

Philippines

• AMBANGAN, Adriano; AMPALID, Ampatuan; ANDAGUER, Letipá, authors; WRIGGLESWORTH, Hazel J., editor. 2008. Narrative episodes from the Tulalang epic.
• BRAINARD, Sherri; DUBOIS, Lauretta J., authors. 1990. "Some functions of direct quotes in Tagabawa narrative discourse."  
• BRICHOUX, Felicia, author. 1992. "Particles: road signs along the highway through a Central Subanen narrative."
• FORFIA, Kathleen, author. 1979. "Nonpast tense in Gaʼdang narrative discourse."  
• FORSTER, Jannette, author. 1983. "Use of dialogue in Dibabawon narrative discourse."
• INGLIS, Douglas, author. 1997. "Salience hierarchy in a Molbog text."
• LEE, Byung-Hoon, author. 2006. "A study of participant reference in Central Bontok."  
• LEE, Byung-Hoon, author. 2008. "A study of participant reference in Central Bontok."
• WALTON, Charles, author. 1997. "The uses of pseudo-cleft sentences in Sama narrative discourse."

Russian Federation

• BORGOYAKOVA, Tatyana; KNAPP, Peter; TOPOYEV, Ilya, authors. 2002. "Participant reference in Khakas narrative discourse."
• HUMNICK, Linda, author. 2002. "Some categories of participant reference in Kumyk narrative."

Thailand

• BLOCK, Karen L., author. 1996. "What makes a story a story in Plang?."  
• SOMSONGE Burusphat, author. 1991. The structure of Thai narrative.  
• SOMSONGE Burusphat, author. 1992. "The identification of storyline in Thai narrative discourse."  
• SOMSONGE Burusphat, author. 1993. "Kui narrative repetition."  

Uzbekistan

• ABDUSATAROVA, Nilufar; HOSHINO, Jinko; MILLER, Elizabeth M.; RAKHMONOV, Nasimxon; ZVARA, James P., authors. 2002. "Notes on 'Номус' "Reputation"."

Viet Nam

• DALEY, Karen A. C., author. 1998. Vietnamese Classifiers in Narrative Texts.  
• OWEN, James Edmond, author. 2002. A discourse analysis of two Stieng narratives.

Europe

Russian Federation

• BORGOYAKOVA, Tatyana; KNAPP, Peter; TOPOYEV, Ilya, authors. 2002. "Participant reference in Khakas narrative discourse."
• HUMNICK, Linda, author. 2002. "Some categories of participant reference in Kumyk narrative."

United Kingdom

• MASON, Ruth, author. 1994. "The development of narrative skills and the evaluative use of modal verbs in the narratives of young non-native speakers of English."

Pacific

Australia

• SWARTZ, Stephen M., author. 1991. Constraints on zero anaphora and word order in Warlpiri narrative text.

Papua New Guinea

• CONRAD, Robert J., author. Available: 2009; Created: 1982. Focus spaces and deictic anchorage in Mufian narrative discourse.  
• DUBERT, Marjorie, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1976. Biangai narrative discourse.  
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2007. "Oral storytelling and fieldwork."
• HOWARD, David Edward, author. 2002. Continuity and given-new status of discourse referents in Adzera oral narrative.  
• LAWRENCE, Helen, author. 1972. "Viewpoint and location in Oksapmin."