Richard Bauman 
A World of Others’ Words [PDF ebook] 
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality

Drawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer a sparkling look at intertextuality as communicative practice.

* A fascinating perspective on intertextuality: the idea that written and spoken texts speak to one another, e.g. through genre or allusions.

* Presents a series of ethnographic case studies to illustrate the topic.

* Draws on a broad range of oral performances and literary records from across the world.

* The author’s introduction sets a framework for the analysis of genre, perform and intertextuality.

* Shows how performers blend genres, e.g., telling stories about riddles or legends about magical verses, or constructing sales pitches.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments vii

Note on Transcription x

1 Introduction: Genre, Performance, and the Production of Intertextuality 1

2 ‘And the Verse is Thus’: Icelandic Stories About Magical Poems 15

3 ‘I’ll Give You Three Guesses’: The Dynamics of Genre in the Riddle Tale 34

4 ‘What Shall We Give You?’: Calibrations of Genre in a Mexican Market 58

5 ‘Bell, You Get the Spotted Pup’: First Person Narratives of a Texas Storyteller 82

6 ‘That I Can’t Tell You’: Negotiating Performance with a Nova Scotia Fisherman 109

7 ‘Go, My Reciter, Recite My Words’: Mediation, Tradition, Authority 128

8 Epilogue 159

Notes 163

References 167

Index 178

A propos de l’auteur

Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Communication and Culture, and Anthropology, and Director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include Verbal Art as Performance (1977), Let Your Words Be Few (1983), Story, Performance, and Event (1986), and Voices of Modernity (with Charles L. Briggs, 2003).