Remembering and Recreating Origins: The Transformation of a Tradition of Canonical Parallelism among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia
James J. Fox
This paper examines and illustrates key oral traditions of canonical parallelism among the Rotenese of eastern Indonesia. The Rotenese are…
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“Word upon a Word”: Parallelism, Meaning, and Emergent Structure in Kalevala-meter Poetry
Lotte Tarkka
This essay treats parallelism as a means for articulating and communicating meaning in performance. Rather than a merely stylistic and…
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“The Language of Gods”: The Pragmatics of Bilingual Parallelism in Ritual Ch’orti’ Maya Discourse
Kerry Hull
In this study I investigate the discursive function of parallelism in the ritual speech of Ch’orti’ Maya. Specifically, I examine…
Parallelism and the Composition of Oral Narratives in Banda Eli
Timo Kaartinen
While parallelism is easily recognizable as the source for various literary tropes, it is also important as a resource for…
Parallelism and Musical Structures in Ingrian and Karelian Oral Poetry
Kati Kallio
Listening to historical oral poetry usually means listening to archival sound recordings with no possibility to ask questions or compare…
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Poetic Parallelism and Working Memory
Nigel Fabb
A widespread kind of parallelism is a relation between sections of text such that each resembles the other in linguistic…
Parallelism in the Hanvueng: A Zhuang Verse Epic from West-Central Guangxi in Southern China
David Holm
Zhuang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in southern China. Parallelism is ubiquitous in Zhuang poetry and song,in ritual texts, and…
“Said a Word, Uttered Thus”: Structures and Functions of Parallelism in Arhippa Perttunen’s Poems
Jukka Saarinen
Verse parallelism is one of the most distinctive features of a Finnic tradition of oral poetry, which is called “kalevalaic…
Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I)
Frog
This essay sets out an approach to parallelism in verbal art as a semiotic phenomenon that can operate at multiple…
Parallelism in Karelian Laments
Eila Stepanova
Karelian laments are performed by women during a ritual – funerals, weddings, and recruiting ceremonies – and were once commonly…
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Prayers for the Community: Parallelism and Performance in San Juan Quiahije Eastern Chatino
Hilaria Cruz
La42 qin4 kchin4 or ‘Prayers for the Community’ are supplications spoken by elders, traditional authorities, and virtuoso Chatino speakers from…
Parallelism in Arandic Song-Poetry
Myfany Tuprin
The ceremonial song-poetry performed by Arandic people of central Australia is characterized by parallelism of sound, form and meaning in…
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Twin Constellations: Parallelism and Stance in Stand-Up Comedy
Antti Lindfors
This paper addresses the interrelations between poetic parallelism and interactional stance-taking in stand-up comedy by examining commercially edited recordings of…
Multimedial Parallelism in Ritual Performance (Parallelism Dynamics II)
Frog
This article approaches parallelism as a semiotic phenomenon that can operate across verbal art and other media in performance. It…
