Oral Tradition Volume 31, Number 2October 2017

Table of Contents

Editor's Column

Parallelism in Verbal Art and Performance: An Introduction by Frog, Lotte Tarkka

Remembering and Recreating Origins: The Transformation of a Tradition of Canonical Parallelism among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia by James J. Fox

“Word upon a Word”: Parallelism, Meaning, and Emergent Structure in Kalevala-meter Poetry by Lotte Tarkka

“The Language of Gods”: The Pragmatics of Bilingual Parallelism in Ritual Ch’orti’ Maya Discourse by Kerry Hull

Parallelism and the Composition of Oral Narratives in Banda Eli by Timo Kaartinen

Parallelism and Musical Structures in Ingrian and Karelian Oral Poetry by Kati Kallio

Poetic Parallelism and Working Memory by Nigel Fabb

Parallelism in the Hanvueng: A Zhuang Verse Epic from West-Central Guangxi in Southern China by David Holm

“Said a Word, Uttered Thus”: Structures and Functions of Parallelism in Arhippa Perttunen’s Poems by Jukka Saarinen

Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I) by Frog

Parallelism in Karelian Laments by Eila Stepanova

Prayers for the Community: Parallelism and Performance in San Juan Quiahije Eastern Chatino by Hilaria Cruz

Parallelism in Arandic Song-Poetry by Myfany Tuprin

Twin Constellations: Parallelism and Stance in Stand-Up Comedy by Antti Lindfors

Multimedial Parallelism in Ritual Performance (Parallelism Dynamics II) by Frog

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