![]() |
OLAC Record oai:sil.org:52772 |
Metadata | ||
Title: | A Salience Scheme for Hmong Soud: Types of Foreground and Background Information in Narrative Discourse | |
Abstract: | This thesis presents a narrative salience scheme for Hmong Soud, a variety of Hmong spoken in Yunnan Province, China. Hmong Soud is an isolating SVO language of the Hmongic branch of the Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao) language family. “Salience scheme” is a term coined by Robert Longacre to describe how a language distinguishes different types of foreground and background information for a particular discourse type. Ten narrative texts of various types (traditional folk tales, animal folk tale, retellings of a video clip, historical account, and first person narrative) are analyzed following the model of Longacre. Semantic criteria are applied to each clause to determine the emic salience bands or information types used in Hmong Soud, the linguistic signals used to mark those bands, and signals used to promote or demote clauses between background and foreground. | |
Contributor (author): | McLaughlin, Carey Elizabeth | |
Date (W3CDTF): | 2012 | |
Description (URI): | http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/52772 | |
Extent: | 217 pages | |
Has Version (URI): | oai:sil.org:53879 | |
Identifier (URI): | http://www.gial.edu/images/theses/McLaughlin_Carey-thesis.pdf | |
http://www.gial.edu/academics/student-theses | ||
Language: | English | |
Language (ISO639): | eng | |
Spatial Coverage (ISO3166): | KM | |
Subject: | Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao language | |
discourse; Hmong; Miao; narrative; salience scheme; information type; foreground; background | ||
Subject (ISO639): | cqd | |
Type (DCMI): | Text | |
Type (OLAC): | language_description | |
OLAC Info |
||
Archive: | SIL Language and Culture Archives | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/sil.org | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
OAI Info |
||
OaiIdentifier: | oai:sil.org:52772 | |
DateStamp: | 2013-04-27 | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
Citation: | McLaughlin, Carey Elizabeth. 2012. SIL Language and Culture Archives. | |
Terms: | area_Asia area_Europe country_CN country_GB dcmi_Text iso639_cqd iso639_eng olac_language_description | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
Country: | China | |
Area: | Asia |