"Sometime Is Lies": Narrative and Identity in Two Mixed-Origin Island Languages

Title
"Sometime Is Lies": Narrative and Identity in Two Mixed-Origin Island Languages
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Hendery, Rachel
Muhlhausler, Peter
Nash, Joshua
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8312-5711
Email: jnash7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jnash7
Editor
Editor(s): Gounder, Farzana
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Edition
1
Series
Studies in Narrative
UNE publication id
une:21939
Abstract
We compare Pitkern-Norf'k and Palmerston narratives to each other and to narrative construction in other more well-known English dialects. This will demonstrate that narratives of these two beach community languages differ from the latter in many parallel ways. We discuss the narrative types 'historical stories' and 'tall tales' taken from the historical record and from our own fieldwork on Palmerston Island and Norfolk Island. Stories the islanders tell about themselves and their history will be the main focus as these illustrate the islanders' conception of their identity. Pertinent questions of historicity arise when multiple conflicting accounts of an event exist, or when the islanders' own oral histories differ from the information in the European colonial record.
Link
Citation
Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands, v.21, p. 101-116
ISBN
9789027268679
9789027249340
Start page
101
End page
116

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