Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru
Elena Mihas
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 181] 2017. xxi, 343 pp.
Elena Mihas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elena Mihas plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Languages of South America | Pragmatics | Syntax
Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan. New directions in language documentation and language revitalization
Edited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 142] 2013. xv, 273 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Language documentation | Language policy
Articles
2019 Gender-switching strategies in the activity of tsinampantsi ‘joking’ among Northern Kampa Arawaks of Peru Creativity in Language, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch (eds.), pp. 119–147 | Article
Among Northern Kampas, the linguistically creative production of tsinampantsi by non-kin and affines intends – apart from having fun – to initiate an intimate relationship or affirm the intimacy of the existing interpersonal relationship. Northern Kampa participants of tsinampantsi ‘joking’ often… read more
2017 Interactional functions of lip funneling gestures: A case study of Northern Kampa Arawaks of Peru Gesture 16:3, pp. 432–479 | Article
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in lowland Peru, this study examines interactional functions of Northern Kampa (Arawak) lip funneling gestures. The study has shown that lip funnels have two functions, spatial deictic and upgrading. Spatial deictic lip funnels orient the addressee to a… read more
2016 Contrastive focus-marking and nominalization in Northern Kampa (Arawak) of Peru Studies in Language 40:2, pp. 414–456 | Article
This study examines the interaction of contrastive focus-marking with nominalization in bisected contrastive focus constructions of Alto Perené, a Kampa Arawak language of Peru. It also investigates morphosyntactic means of contrastive focus-marking in two neighboring Kampa languages, Ashéninka… read more
2013 Composite ideophone-gesture utterances in the Ashéninka Perené ‘community of practice’, an Amazonian Arawak society from Central-Eastern Peru Gesture 13:1, pp. 28–62 | Article
Based on extensive fieldwork in Peru among Ashéninka Perené Arawaks, this study is a preliminary report on ideophone-gesture composites, with special focus on the meaning and functions of ideophone-gesture couplings within participatory learning frameworks. In expert-novice learning environments,… read more
2012 Ideophones in Alto Perené (Arawak) from Eastern Peru Studies in Language 36:2, pp. 300–344 | Article
This research is a first attempt to survey ideophones in the Amazonian Arawak language Alto Perené (a.k.a. Ashéninka Perené). Based on fieldwork data, this study shows that ideophones constitute a separate class of words in Alto Perené in view of their distinctive phonological, morphological,… read more
2012 Bodily-based conceptual metaphors in Ashéninka Perené myths and folk stories Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 145–160 | Article
The paper examines a range of conceptual metaphors which serve as key elements of Ashéninka Perené (Arawak) myths and folk tales, and aims at situating them in the context of Amazonian high jungle dwellers’ culture. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2009–2011 in lowland Peru, the paper gives a brief… read more