[BOOK][B] Textualization of oral epics

L Honko - 2000 - degruyter.com
Textualization of oral epics Textualization of Oral Epics W DE G Page 2 Trends in Linguistics
Studies and Monographs 128 Editor Werner Winter Mouton de Gruyter Berlin· New York Page 3
Textualization of Oral Epics edited by Lauri Honko Mouton de Gruyter Berlin· New York 2000
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Text as process and practice: the textualization of oral epics

L Honko - Trends In Linguistics Studies And Monographs, 2000 - degruyter.com
The concept of oral text has experienced a revolutionary development in recent years. What
used to be an innocent object of research, a verbal transcript of an orally performed
traditional song (with or, more commonly, without musical notation), has been problematized
from a variety of angles by questioning its boundaries, apparent fixity, performative
representativity, situational and cultural contextuality, co-textual and intertextual
environment, discursive function and ideological bias. The modest transcript has undergone …