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Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman

Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective

By: Janis B. Nuckolls

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Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman

Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective

By: Janis B. Nuckolls

Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers. This book is a fascinating look at ideophones—words that communicate succinctly through imitative sound qualities. They are at the core of Quechua speakers’ discourse—both linguistic and cultural—because they allow agency and reaction to substances and entities as well as beings. Nuckolls shows that Luisa Cadena’s utterances give every individual, major or minor, a voice in her narrative. Sometimes as subtle as a barely felt movement or unintelligible sound, the language supports an amazingly wide variety of voices. Cadena’s narratives and commentaries on everyday events reveal that sound imitation through ideophones, representations of dialogues between humans and nonhumans, and grammatical distinctions between a speaking self and an other are all part of a language system that allows for the possibility of shared affects, intentions, moral values, and meaningful, communicative interactions between humans and nonhumans.

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248

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University of Arizona Press

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ISBN 10

0816528586

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9780816528585

Amazonian Quichua Language and Life

Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador

By: Janis B. Nuckolls,Tod D. Swanson

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Amazonian Quichua Language and Life

Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador

By: Janis B. Nuckolls,Tod D. Swanson

In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and anthropological knowledge, extensive fieldwork, and personal relationships with generations of speakers from Pastaza and Napo communities, the authors open a door into worlds of intimate meaning that knowledge of Quichua makes accessible. Nuckolls and Swanson link grammatical lessons with examples of naturally occurring discourse, traditional narratives, conversations, songs, and personal experiences to teach readers about the languages’ structures and discourse patterns and speakers’ sensory depictions, ecological aesthetics, and emotional perspectives.

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291

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793616205

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9781793616203

Sounds Like Life

Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua

By: Janis B. Nuckolls

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Sounds Like Life

Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua

By: Janis B. Nuckolls

Moreover, the evidence from sound symbolism's grammatical patterning, its performative foregrounding in multiple contexts of use, and its ability to trigger memories of key life experiences, suggests that for the Pastaza Quechua sound symbolism is more than a style of speaking. It is a style of thinking about oneself as connected, by the sounds that resonate through one's body, with the natural world.

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