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Author
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The Trobriand Islanders' eschatological belief system explains what happens when someone dies. Bronislaw Malinowski described essentials of this eschatology in his articles "Baloma: the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands" and "Myth in Primitive Psychology". There he also presented the Trobrianders' belief that a "baloma" can be reborn; he claimed that Trobrianders are unaware of the father's role as genitor. This volume presents a critical...
Author
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova's English poem "Sail the Midnight Sun". This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina's intention to marry the girl so famous for her beauty, on his long journey to Imdeduya's village and on their tragic love story. The texts are compared with...
Author
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories, but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization...
Author
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
This volume deals with the children's socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children's early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education within their `own little community' until they reach the age of seven years. During this time children enjoy much autonomy and independence. Attempts of parental...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Große Sprachkorpora sind als empirische Basis für die Arbeit des Linguisten zunehmend wichtig geworden. Dabei gehen die Arbeiten zum Korpusaufbau Hand in Hand mit der Entwicklung immer komfortablerer computerlinguistischer Werkzeuge zur Verwaltung und Analyse großer Datenmengen. Mit dem Fortschritt in den Möglichkeiten der Datenerschließung stellt sich die Frage, wie die Linguistik dies in Erkenntniszuwachs umsetzen kann. Diese aktuelle Frage...