Chapter 11. Topic and Focus in Wambon discourse

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“…And since marriage was not only exogamous but also polygamous, many variations were possible. 39 This bilingualism was of the utmost importance since the avunculus (mother's brother or cross-male-parent) performed a key role in the life of children and spoke the language of their mother. The languages of the Papuans in the Upper-Digul area all belonged to the Awyu-Ndumut family.…”

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Religion or Culture? Change among the Papuans in the Upper-Digul Area, 1956–1967

Graaf¹

2012

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In August 1958, Meeuwis Drost (1923-86) was the first missionary for the Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (Vrijgemaakt), or Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) to start proselytising among the Papuans of the Upper-Digul area in Netherlands New Guinea. He later recalled how that day: “I simply started with Genesis one. And they listened!” Drost finished teaching the entire Old Testament within one year. To start at the beginning seems logical and is in fact the approach used by most missionaries of the Liberated churches. Transfer of religious and cultural knowledge was seen as an important aspect of their work, especially with an illiterate audience. The Protestant religious landscape in the Netherlands had fragmented heavily during the nineteenth century. Two secessions from the Dutch Reformed Church in 1834 and 1886 led to the formation of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands in 1892. Its tendency to depose those who refused to adhere to its theological views resulted in the Vrijmaking (Liberation) in 1944. Although the Liberated churches were one of many Protestant branches, they were very secure in their own theological views. Consisting of exclusive political, religious, educational and even recreational organisations they formed a mini-pillar in Dutch society.

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Religion or Culture? Change among the Papuans in the Upper-Digul Area, 1956–1967

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2012

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“…The main focus strategies in Kar will be exemplified on clauses with different arguments in focus (syntactic subject, direct object and oblique object), whereby special attention will be paid to the marking of the out-of-focus part of the sentences. Subsequently I shall discuss the question whether the language disposes of special formal means to differentiate the pragmatic conditions shown in Figure 1 above, in which case it would resemble languages like Aghem, or whether the means to code different types of focus are identical, which would make Kar more similar to Wambon, a Papuan language of Irian Jaya (Vries 1985).…”

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Papers on information structure in African languages

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These proceedings, also online available as No. 46 in the ZAS Papers in Linguistics series under http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil have resulted from the International Conference "Focus in African languages" held October 6-8, 2005 at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin. The conference was cooperatively organized by the latter, together with the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsforschungsbereich) 632, generously funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It was the first conference bringing together colleagues working on this topic from all over the world in such scale. Even though this volume contains only ten contributions out of the 35 papers presented at the conference, it displays the wide range of approaches, subjects and languages studied in the field of information structure in African languages. The collection thus reflects the synergetic atmosphere of the conference. In the name of all organizers (Laura Downing, Ines Fiedler, Katharina Hartmann, Brigitte Reineke, Anne Schwarz, Sabine Zerbian, Malte Zimmermann) we would like to take this opportunity to thank the participant reviewers and student assistants for their contributions by which the conference became such a fruitful forum for inspiring and seminal studies in this field. Also special thanks for their effort in copy editing to our research assistants Lars Marstaller and Paul Starzmann.

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“…On this view the semantic content of a linguistic expression can be defined as that information which it is necessary and sufficient to attribute to that expression in order to explain how it can be systematically used in relating given intentions to given interpretations, within the framework defined by the pragmatic information available to S and Apoiado em Watters (1979), Dik et alii (1981), Bossuyt (1982), Hannay (1983), Vries (1985), Moutaouakil (1984) e Thwing-Watters (1987), 118 No original: "1. 'Focus' is a term applied to some morphosyntactic operation or category whose functional has not been adequately analyzed.…”

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“…Também apresentarei o resultado da investigação quantitativa e qualitativa realizada com usuários das duas variedades lusófonas, que revelou a intuição desses sujeitos acerca do uso de sendo que no português hodierno. Para tanto, recorro à noção pragmática de foco de Dik (1989de Dik ( , 1997 e à concepção cognitiva de ajustamento focal de Langacker (1987).…”

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“…Figura 1: Continuum léxico > gramática ........................................................................................................ Figura 2: Conhecimento mútuo de S (speaker) e A (Addressee) deDik (1997, p.11) ................................... Figura 3: Diferentes escopos do foco (tradução da versãode DIK, 1997, p.331) ......................................... Figura 4: Diferença no ponto da comunicação (DIK, 1997 Figura 5: Exemplo de foco paralelo .............................................................................................................. Figura 6: Campo visual de uma pessoa proposto por Langacker (1987, p.138) ......................................... Figura 7: Representação do aspecto classificatório baseado em Givón (2011) ......................................... Figura 8: Representação de uma construção comparativa com sendo [...] que ......................................... Figura 9: Representação de uma construção com sendo [...] que .............................................................. Figura 10: Escopo 1 de sendo que segundo proposta de diferentes tipos de foco de Dik (1997) .............. Figura 11: Escopo 2 de sendo que segundo proposta de diferentes tipos de foco de Dik (1997) .............. Figura 12: Análise semasiológica de sendo que .......................................................................................... presente na proposição maior, sobre a qual o falante/escritor investe destaque. Tanto o contexto (1) quanto o (2) são intercambiáveis entre as duas variedades linguísticas ora investigadas, ou seja, foram identificados nas duas variedades do português, independentemente das distinções culturais que o PB e o PP possam apresentar.Além das funções identificadas em (1) e (2), outras são assumidas pelo sendo que ao longo de sua história no português.…”

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Gramaticalização do foco no português do Brasil e de Portugal: estudo de diferentes sincronias da construção sendo que

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À minha orientadora, Profa. Dra. Maria Célia Lima-Hernandes, pelo conhecimento compartilhado, pelo estímulo científico e, principalmente, por conduzir-me à gramaticalização. À minha coorientadora, Profa. Dra. Madalena Teixeira, pelo encontro inesperado no Brasil e pelo reencontro tão esperado em Portugal. À Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, em especial à coordenação da Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação e aos colegas do Departamento de Letras do Campus de Rondonópolis, pelo incentivo para realização da minha qualificação docente.

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Chapter 11. Topic and Focus in Wambon discourse

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Religion or Culture? Change among the Papuans in the Upper-Digul Area, 1956–1967

Religion or Culture? Change among the Papuans in the Upper-Digul Area, 1956–1967

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