THE SIMILARITY OF NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN NGANASAN AND MIDDLE TAZ SELKUP (some possible correlations of linguistics and ethnography)

Urmanchieva A. Y.

DOI: 10.23951/2307-6119-2018-1-59-68

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Urmanchieva Anna, сandidat of Science, Philology, senior research fellow. Institute for Linguistic Studies (St. Petersburg). Per. Tuchkov, 9, St.Petersburg, Russia, 199053. Е-mail: urmanna@yandex.ru

The paper describes folklore narrative strategies of Nganasan and the northernmost dialect of Selkup. These idioms both exhibit two narrative strategies based on the discourse use of indirect evidentials (Inferential and Reportative). Thus they differ from the rest of Samoyedic idioms which lack the distinction between these two indirect evidentials and thus lack formal means of differentiating the two narrative strategies. The paper discusses possible correlation of the narrative strategies with different folklore genres. It is argued, that one of the narrative strategies in question arose due to a peculiar Samoyedic folclore narrative technique. The paper discusses also some possible correlation of linguistic data with the cultural anthropology of the Nganasans and the Selkups.

Keywords: Middle Taz Selkup, Nganasan, narrative strategies, indirect evidentials, folklore, ethnography, cultural anthropology

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Issue: 1, 2018

Series of issue: Issue 1

Rubric: LINGUISTICS

Pages: 59 — 68

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