Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

A.M. Jones and Hazel Carter. "The Style of a Tonga Historical Narrative." African Language Studies, 8:93-126.

This presentation of an oral autobiography of one Sikwaazwa, as told to Fr. A.M. Jones in 1936, includes mention of typical repetitive features of oral story-telling such as stem-reduplication, repetition of a word or word-complex, and recurrent phrases or sentences (espec. 118-19).
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