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In:Person Reference and Interaction in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Narrative
Clair Hill
[Culture and Language Use 26] 2026
► pp. 38–82

Chapter 2
Narratives of the Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u

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Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2Collaboration in narration
    • 2.2.1Multiparty narration as the default
    • 2.2.2Epistemic access versus epistemic rights
  • 2.3Narrator roles
  • 2.4Narrative genres
    • 2.4.1Before time narrative
    • 2.4.2Ngaachi narrative
    • 2.4.3Custom way narrative
    • 2.4.4Lawalawa ‘comedic’ narrative
  • 2.5The circumstances of narration
    • 2.5.1The interactants
    • 2.5.2The sessions and launching of a story
  • 2.6The corpus
    • 2.6.1The broad corpus
    • 2.6.2Focused corpus
    • 2.6.3Older narratives
  • 2.7Conclusion
  • Notes
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