Strategy in Ngoni Women's Oral Poetry

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ID5840342
AuthorsEnoch Timpunza Mvula (corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume5
Issue3
Pages1-37
Publication date1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Arts (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0256-0046 • E-ISSN: 1992-6049
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02560049185310021
OpenAlexW2029752794
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited20

Introduction One of the most significant developments in folkloristics in the past decade has been the movement away from analysis of folklore as merely products to the study of process 'the doing of folklore and artistic event the performance situation, involving performer, art form, audience, and setting* (Bauman, 1977:4). The elaboration of folklore as a communicative process which is culturally rulegoverned has gone hand in hand with work in other disciplines concerned with communication in specific groups: socio-linguistics, rhetorical theory, communication theory and the ethnography of speaking (Hymes, 1972; Bauman and Sherzer, 1974; Burke, 1957). These scholars and other performance-oriented folklorists (BenAmos and Goldstein 1974) as well as Erving Goffman (1974) focus on the dynamics of small group interaction and emphasize the significance of individual strategy for stylized communication and the achievement of one's goal. Such factors as individual choice, persuasion, negotiation, and manipulation of linguistic and cultural rules and norms in the accomplishment of social action are said to be important because verbal behaviour is purposeful. Likewise this study maintains that strategies as norms of group interaction are goal-centred and that folklore is the strategic styliza

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