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Hymes, Dell H. 1998. When is oral narrative poetry? Generative form and its pragmatic conditions. Pragmatics 8 (4) : 475–500.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

narrative | poetry | scope

Language as a subject

Chinook, Clackamas

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

The author analyzes oral narratives from two languages - one extinct, the other extant - to highlight the universal scope of poetry, while also discussing its pragmatic properties (framing, repetition, shaping of verbal interactions, etc.).