Dissertation Research: Rhetorical Functions of Parallelism in Sierra Popoluca Discourse Performance

小行星9322751 该项目支持得克萨斯大学语言人类学家的论文研究，研究墨西哥韦拉克鲁斯农村Sierra Popoluca语言的母语者之间的平行言语风格的修辞功能。 美洲原住民口头表演中的重复（定义为话语的语法，语义或韵律结构的系统变化）已被证明可以增强传统叙事中的意义。 本研究将探讨从会话到仪式语的各种言语体裁中的关系，为语篇表现中的平行性提供一个比较数据库。 学生将记录，转录和翻译自然发生的语音事件在各种情况下。 这项研究是重要的，因为它将增加我们的平行在美国印第安语言的作用的理解，将有助于培养一个初级的语言科学家，并将文件和保护美国本土的语言文化。 ***

9322751 Stross This project supports the dissertation research of a linguistic anthropologist from the University of Texas, studying the rhetorical functions of parallel speech styles among native speakers of the Sierra Popoluca language of rural Veracruz, Mexico. Parallelism (defined as repetition with systematic variation of grammatical, semantic or prosodic structures of an utterance) in Native American verbal performance has been shown to enhance meaning in traditional narratives. This research will look at relationships in a variety of speech genres from conversation to ritual speech to provide a comparative data base of parallelism in discourse performance. The student will record, transcribe and translate naturally occurring speech events in a variety of contexts. This research is important because it will add to our understanding of the role of parallelism in American Indian languages, will help train a junior linguistic scientist, and will document and conserve native American linguistic culture. ***