TY - T1 - Parallelism and the Composition of Oral Narratives in Banda Eli SN - / 1542-4308 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/232257 T3 - A1 - Kaartinen, Timo Antero A2 - PB - Y1 - 2017 LA - eng AB - While parallelism is easily recognizable as the source for various literary tropes, it is also important as a resource for the speakers’ dialogic engagement with the patterns of interaction and experience they embody as part of their linguistic habitus. This article explores the forms of parallelism found in a variety of speech and narrative genres in Bandanese, an Eastern Indonesian minority language with about 5,000 speakers. Bandanese abounds with parallel expressions in which speakers use pa... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 5143 Social anthropology; habitus; folk categories; 6121 Languages; dialogic resonance; tropes; 6122 Literature studies; language revitalization; parallelism; repetition; narrative N1 - PP - ER -