International Journal of Human Culture Studies
Online ISSN : 2187-1930
ISSN-L : 2187-1930
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Chiastic structure data about the prose tale "The mother and the father having given Wajin the son and having placed him" by an Ainu race
The mechanism which memorizes narration
Noriaki Ohgita
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2012 Volume 2012 Issue 22 Pages 159-170

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Abstract
A text "The mother and the father gave Wajin the son and have placed him" by Satamo Hiraga which Tamura recorded were selected in this paper. The appearance of chiastic structure was checked in the text. The chiastic structure which has 18 pairs of correspondences in a text was found out. The purpose of this paper is to show the data about the chiastic structure expressed by the text. Investigation is not made till the present from the viewpoint which measures the number of correspondences and the frequency of appearance of correspondence in the chiastic structure found out by Ainu oral literature.
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© 2012 Institute of Human Culture Studies, Otsuma Women's University
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