Tuturan Komburongo in the Context of Oral Narrative and Belief of the Tobilung Ethnic Group of Sabah

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Low Kok On ◽  
Ick Ellyrenzine Linsap
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Oral Literature

The oral narratives that revolve around Komburongo are known as tuturan Komburongo among the Tobilung ethnic group in Sabah. The purpose of this article is to analyze the elements of belief contained in these stories. All the tuturan Komburungo that are analyzed in this article are obtained from fieldwork interviews with informants from the Tobilung ethnic group in the district of Kota Belud, Sabah. The important issues dealt with in this article are concerned with the Tobilung ethnic group's belief in the supernatural powers of Komburongo, as told in their oral literature. The result of the analysis by way of interpretation in this study finds that the tuturan Komburungo are divided into myth or legend in the context of folklore. On the question of its origin, Komburongo is believed to have been created by Tinamaru, the Creator of the Tobilung. The traditional Tobilung ethnic group are found to be highly dependent on Komburongo as the good spirit that provides guidance and possesses magical powers that help to solve various life crises for generations. This study is considered significant because it highlights many aspects of the belief of the Tobilung ethnic group passed down from generation to generation based on tuturan Komburungo.

Cognitive Processing and Narrative Discourse Production in Children with ADHD

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Moonsamy ◽  
Heila Jordaan ◽  
Kirston Greenop
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Attention Deficits ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Children With Adhd

Children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have cognitive processing difficulties due to their disinhibition and attention deficits, which influence their scholastic performance. Cognitive processing also impacts on the production of oral narratives, an essential skill required for academic success. Therefore the relationship between cognitive processing and oral narratives is investigated. Thirty males, aged 9–11 years, were selected from English medium remedial schools and were assessed on the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS). The results were correlated to their performance on two narrative tasks, involving a Picture Sequence and a Personal Narrative. Measures of Cohesion and Coherence were analysed quantitatively. Participants' low Planning and Attention scores in this study confirmed the validity of the CAS as a diagnostic device for ADHD but were not significantly related to their oral narrative production. However, their approach to the task indicated insufficient use of planning. The structured task (picture sequence) yielded more complex stories than the unstructured task (personal narrative), which may be reflective of the participants' attention deficits. The findings suggest that narrative measures are useful instruments for oral language evaluation in children with ADHD. In addition, the importance of understanding oral narratives within a therapeutic situation is important for both therapist and child.

scholarly journals Avaliação de Narrativas Orais em Crianças Falantes de Português Europeu (PE): Um Teste Piloto

2020 ◽  
pp. 368-384
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Vaz ◽  
Maria Lobo ◽  
Marisa Lousada
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Language Disorders ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Second Moment ◽  
First Results ◽  
International Instruments

Although there are several referenced and validated international instruments for evaluating oral narratives,which can be used in populations with language disorders to help the diagnosis and to plan intervention, there is yet no such instrument for EP. In this work, we present a first version of an instrument for evaluating oral narrative productions for EP-speaking children, including the methodology used in the construction of the instrument, its structure, criteria for the analysis of productions, and procedures used in the validation of the instrument. In a second moment, we report the first results from a pilot study that indicate that there may be differences between tasks (telling or retelling), between types of stories and between age groups in what concerns the analysis of macrostructural parameters.

scholarly journals Hidden Narratives: Augmented Reality to enhance cultural and historical values in the design of Lake Fuxian

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanran Li
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Specific Site ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lake Fuxian

<p><b>The impacts of globalisation has lead towards the loss of culture, such as overpopulation, forestation and global intergration. The lost culture has mostly been preserved through written text and oral narratives as a way of illustrating a long-gone reality. Similarly, narratives have the power to connect people with imagination and allow them to experience the uniqueness of a specific site in their own terms. However, oral narrative and written text lacked the interaction between communities, or human to Landscape. New technologies have the potential to reconnect these oral narratives or written text with both the wider public and the site. </b></p><p>This research will explore the historical change of Lake Fuxian, from 500 million years ago to present day, through the illustration and experience of Landscape narratives. This research aims to utilize Augmented Reality as a way to physically connect to the past, while still retaining the existing landscape. Augmented Reality has the ability to combine many types of narratives, such as oral, written and drawn, resulting in an educated relationship to Lake Fuxian. Additionally, modernizing these narratives for a larger demographic such as visitors and locals to engage with the landscape, promoting respect for cultural diversity and adaption. </p>

Aboriginal English inside and outside the classroom

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian G. Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
First Person ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Aboriginal Child ◽  
Aboriginal Children

Abstract It is argued that Aboriginal children’s English is different inside and outside the classroom largely because characteristically, inside the classroom the Aboriginal children do not have the freedom to determine the discourse pattern which they have outside the classroom. This is illustrated on the basis of an analysis of five first person oral narratives of Aboriginal children of the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia recorded outside the classroom, which are compared both with a first person oral narrative of a non-Aboriginal child and with teacher led interactions in the classes of which these children were members. The Aboriginal children’s discourse exhibits ‘tracking,’ a culture-specific way of organising narrative, which is widely exhibited in Aboriginal communities. It is implied that education of speakers of Aboriginal English needs to be sensitive to such discoursal features which are not shared by other English speakers.

The effect of workshop training on rater variability in children’s oral narrative assessment

2021 ◽  
pp. 026565902110238
Author(s):  
Ava Karusoo-Musumeci ◽  
Wendy M Pearce ◽  
Michelle Donaghy
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Scoring Systems ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Speech Pathology ◽  
Story Grammar ◽  
Narrative Assessment ◽  
Rater Variability ◽  
The Impact

Oral narrative assessments are important for diagnosis of language disorders in school-age children so scoring needs to be reliable and consistent. This study explored the impact of training on the variability of story grammar scores in children’s oral narrative assessments scored by multiple raters. Fifty-one speech pathologists and 19 final-year speech pathology students attended training workshops on oral narrative assessment scoring and analysis. Participants scored two oral narratives prompted by two different story stimuli and produced by two children of differing ages. Demographic information, story grammar scores and a confidence survey were collected pre- and post-training. The total story grammar score changed significantly for one of the two oral narratives. A significant effect was observed for rater years of experience and the change in total story grammar scores post training, with undergraduate students showing the greatest change. Two story grammar elements, character and attempt, changed significantly for both stories, with an overall trend of increased element scores post-training. Confidence ratings also increased post-training. Findings indicated that training via an interactive workshop can reduce rater variability when using researcher-developed narrative scoring systems.

scholarly journals Antu Language in the Sangin Oral Narrative of the Sihans in Sarawak

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Noriah Mohamed ◽  
Jamilah Bebe Mohamad ◽  
Mohd Tarmizi Hasrah
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Indigenous Ethnic Group ◽  
Original Area

This article discusses the Sihan community and one of their traditional oral narratives, known as sangin. Sihan is an indigenous ethnic group residing in Belaga, Sarawak, Malaysia, and sangin is an activity that can be considered a folklore, narrative in manner, and performed for entertainment and native remedy. Data on the community in this study was obtained through interviews with 71 Sihan informants in Belaga, Sarawak, Malaysia. The sangin by one of its practitioners was recorded during the community’s leisure activities. The recorded sangin song, delivered in the style of storytelling, narrated for entertainment, not for remedy purposes. The description of the sangin indicates that the language in the oral tradition, called antu language (language of the spirit) is very different from the modern, every day Sihan language used by its speakers. In terms of usage, sangin can be considered extinct because of the reduced number of Sihan speakers (only 218 left) and lessening number of sangin practitioners (only three remain). Sangin as a native remedy no longer has a place in the community with the availability of modern medical treatment, the mass migration of the Sihans from their original area, and the change in the Sihans’ life style, from nomadic to community life.

scholarly journals A Critical Note on “The Epic of Samori Toure”

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Critical Note

Samori Toure (d. 1900) is celebrated, both in written history and oral tradition, in Mali and Guinea because of the empire he founded and his fierce resistance against the French, as they sought to occupy their future colony of the French Sudan. Recently published anthologies of African epic (Johnson/Hale/Belcher 1997; Kesteloot/Dieng 1997; Belcher 1999) attest that an orally transmitted Samori epic exists in these countries. In this paper the texts hitherto presented as the Samori epic will be compared to some oral sketches about Samori which I recorded during two years of fieldwork conducted in southwestern Mali and northeastern Guinea. I will hypothesize that a Samori epic may be in the making, but does not yet exist. The texts hitherto presented as the epic of Samori are largely oral narratives produced more or less in concord with expectations about what an epic should look like. The focus is on Samori as a hero on the battefield, and this is not representative for the present-day oral narrative on Samori. Therefore, an epic of Samori, if it ever does come into being and takes the form of a standardized oral narrative, might deal with different issues than one might expect from reading the texts presented in the anthologies.

scholarly journals Lexical Diversity Development in Newly Arrived Parent-Child Immigrant Pairs: Aptitude, Age, Exposure, and Anxiety

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Amelia Lambelet
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Entire Sample ◽  
Lexical Diversity ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
One Year ◽  
Parent Child

Abstract The Language Aptitude Outside the Classroom (LAOC) study investigates the factors that contribute to successful English-learning among newly arrived parent-child immigrants. Two types of factors are considered: cognitive abilities (aptitude measured with the LLAMA tests and working memory) and contextual-affective factors (exposure and anxiety). Participants are pairs of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the US. Each pair consists of a parent and their child aged 7–16. Their English proficiency is measured longitudinally during a one-year period using a listening comprehension test, a verbal fluency test, and an oral narrative (frog story). This contribution focuses on the lexical diversity of the oral narratives (Guiraud Index). Linear mixed models were run on the entire sample and on adults and children separately using time, aptitude, working memory, exposure to English, and anxiety as predictors of lexical diversity of the oral narratives (random effect = dyad, random slope = time). The results show that the development of lexical diversity over a one-year period is predicted by exposure to the language (and, for the children, anxiety). Two subtests of the LLAMA aptitude battery are also significant predictors when the entire sample is considered, but this effect nevertheless disappears for the adults when modeled separately from the children.

scholarly journals The structure of emotion discourse: from Labovian to socio-cognitive models

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Romano ◽  
María Dolores Porto ◽  
Clara Molina
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Emotional Events

AbstractThis paper focuses on how narrators convey emotion in the structure of oral narrative discourse in Spanish. To this end, the structure of personal oral narratives of highly emotional events in a sample of radio narratives is analyzed from two different approaches:

scholarly journals Deceptive Strategies in Literature: The Meaning of Folded Story

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Silvia Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Past History ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
History Of ◽  
Kinship Structure

Tambo Minangkabau is a storehouse of knowledge about the history of the Minangkabau people. Initially, it developed as oral literature, passed from generation to generation in the Minangkabau community in West Sumatra, an Indonesian provinces with a matrilineal kinship structure. However, after the Minangkabau people embraced Islam, Tambo began to be written using Jawi characters in Arabic thus becoming an historical literary work. Tambo tells the history of the Minangkabau ethnic group and also the history of customs and Minangkabau culture. Tambo records past events, stories about the origins of Minangkabau ancestors, philosophy, norms and laws in community life, and even the tragedies that have occurred in this ethnic group. To express the tragedies that have occurred in the past history of the Minangkabau ethnic group, Tambo uses the power of symbolic language. There are two episodes in Tambo that illustrate this. This article reveals the strategy of hiding a tragedy by the Minangkabau tribe through the power of the use of language in historical literary works, especially those depicted in the episodes of “Teka-teki Kayu Tataran” and “Teka-teki Unggas”.

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