Style and Meaning in an Oral Literature

Emeneau, M. B.

doi:10.2307/411695

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“…6. Similar observations have been made by Emeneau (1966) for Toda, Fox (1975: 128) for Rotinese, and Owen (1985: 78-107) for Classical Chinese. 7.…”

Section: Poetics and Lexical Meaningsupporting

confidence: 81%

Couplets and oblique contexts: The social organization of a folksong

Mannheim¹

1987

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Repetition of lexical forms in Quechua semanticatty regulated verse contributes to establishing semantic oblique contexts, in much the same way äs do belief ascriptions and quotations. Obliqueness is the joint product ofpragmatiCy syntactic, and poetle factors, such äs behavioral shifts in footing, reorientations of the hierarchy of speech functions, syntactic embedding, and the conventional structure of the poetic device. The overall effect of these factors is to create a multilayered, heterophonic discourse. Current accounts of obliqueness, which are restricted to certain technical problems in semantics that arise from i t, need to be supplemented by an integrated theory which brings semantic, syntactic and behavioral evidence to bear on the layering of discourse within discourse.

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“…6. Similar observations have been made by Emeneau (1966) for Toda, Fox (1975: 128) for Rotinese, and Owen (1985: 78-107) for Classical Chinese. 7.…”

Section: Poetics and Lexical Meaningsupporting

confidence: 81%

Couplets and oblique contexts: The social organization of a folksong

Mannheim¹

1987

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“…The English song 'The Umbrella Man' is an illustration of this phenomenon, where the meter requires the word 'umbrella' to be four syllables, um-buh-rel-la, consequently 'any umbrellas' has the meter á ny úmberé llas [6]. This similarly occurs in Toda songs, where the required syllable is three [1]. This specific literary-linguistic interaction is the focus of this study.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…The songs of Toda, a Dravidian language of the Nilgiri plateau in South India, are a corpus of 260 texts that has been primarily collected to undertake a stylistic analysis by Emeneau [1,11]. This Dravidian language is known for its numerous trills and fricatives and originated from Tamil-Kannada [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the extent to which vowel epenthesis is used to satisfy the poetic meter preferences in songs and verses that are sensitive to the number of syllables per line in the light of Optimality Theory (OT). This study was largely based on songs collected by Emeneau [1] and recently recognised by Fabb [2]. It offers an analysis of vowel epenthesis using the ranked and violable constraints of OT [3].…”

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Vowel Epenthesis in Toda Songs

Aloufi¹

2021

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This study looks at a minor but interesting phonological phenomenon that is vowel epenthesis in Toda songs, a Dravidian language spoken in South India. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the extent to which vowel epenthesis is used to satisfy the poetic meter preferences in songs and verses that are sensitive to the number of syllables per line in the light of Optimality Theory (OT). This study was largely based on songs collected by Emeneau [1] and recently recognised by Fabb [2]. It offers an analysis of vowel epenthesis using the ranked and violable constraints of OT [3]. The conclusion of the paper is that vowel epenthesis is triggered by a non-rhythmic size meter that constrains the length of the line of the poetic form in Toda to be strictly three syllables [4]. Within OT, violation and the strict domination of OT constraints are capable of accounting for the vowel epenthesis in Toda songs. Theoretical insights from OT enrich our understanding not only of Toda phonology but also of its metric rules. More generally, OT is shown in this study to be a framework which manages to give meaningful clarification of complex and specific literary-linguistic interaction patterns found in a given language.

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“…Semantic coupling disregards the familiar intuitive classifications of semantic relationships into antonymy, synmonymy, hyponymy and so forth and draws instead on a more primary, covert level oflinguistic patterning (Mannheim 1986a). Parallel conclusions have been drawn by scholars of lexicallybased poetic devices in other languages (Emeneau 1966;Fox 1975: 128;Owen 1985:78-107). Such devices shift the focus of the expressions from their conventional referents to their intensional and conceptual makeup.…”

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confidence: 97%