Publications
Publication details [#12118]
Hymes, Dell H. 1998. When is oral narrative poetry? Generative form and its pragmatic conditions. Pragmatics 8 (4) : 475–500. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
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.).