Social Science Native American Studies
The context of the informant narrative performance
From sociolinguistics to ethnolinguistics at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta
- Publisher
- Canadian Museum of History
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1979
- Category
- Native American Studies
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- ISBN
- 9781772822144
- Publish Date
- Jan 1979
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
An examination of the relationship between narrative structure and narrative performance in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.
About the author
Ron Scollon (1939-2009) spent his early years as a linguist at the Alaska Native Language Center, where he contributed to the documentation of several Athabascan languages. Scollon received training in Athabascan linguistics from renowned Athabaskanist Li Fang-Kuei, himself a student of Edward Sapir. He went on to become a preeminent linguist in the field of discourse analysis and intercultural communication, serving for many years as Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.
