Multimedial Parallelism in Ritual Performance (Parallelism Dynamics II)
This article approaches parallelism as a semiotic phenomenon that can operate across verbal art and other media in performance. It presents an approach to different… Read More
Twin Constellations: Parallelism and Stance in Stand-Up Comedy
This paper addresses the interrelations between poetic parallelism and interactional stance-taking in stand-up comedy by examining commercially edited recordings of stand-up routines performed by two… Read More
Parallelism in Arandic Song-Poetry
The ceremonial song-poetry performed by Arandic people of central Australia is characterized by parallelism of sound, form and meaning in both auditory and visual modalities. Read More
Prayers for the Community: Parallelism and Performance in San Juan Quiahije Eastern Chatino
La42 qin4 kchin4 or ‘Prayers for the Community’ are supplications spoken by elders, traditional authorities, and virtuoso Chatino speakers from Oaxaca, Mexico. Chatino prayers are… Read More
Parallelism in Karelian Laments
Karelian laments are performed by women during a ritual – funerals, weddings, and recruiting ceremonies – and were once commonly used in other contexts of… Read More
Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I)
This essay sets out an approach to parallelism in verbal art as a semiotic phenomenon that can operate at multiple orders (or levels) of signification. Read More
“Said a Word, Uttered Thus”: Structures and Functions of Parallelism in Arhippa Perttunen’s Poems
Verse parallelism is one of the most distinctive features of a Finnic tradition of oral poetry, which is called “kalevalaic poetry” in Finland or “regilaul”… Read More
Parallelism in the Hanvueng: A Zhuang Verse Epic from West-Central Guangxi in Southern China
Zhuang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in southern China. Parallelism is ubiquitous in Zhuang poetry and song,in ritual texts, and in a range of oral… Read More
Poetic Parallelism and Working Memory
A widespread kind of parallelism is a relation between sections of text such that each resembles the other in linguistic form, or in lexical meaning,… Read More
Parallelism and Musical Structures in Ingrian and Karelian Oral Poetry
Listening to historical oral poetry usually means listening to archival sound recordings with no possibility to ask questions or compare performances by one singer in… Read More