TY  - BOOK
AU  - Green, Jennifer, 
TI  - Drawn from the ground: sound, sign and inscription in Central Australian sand stories 
T2  - Language culture and cognition
SN  - 9781107028920 (hardback)
AV  - GR366.A87 G74 2014
U1  - 398.20899915 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  -  Folklore
KW  - Storytelling
KW  -  Australia
KW  -  Central Australia
KW  - Women, Aboriginal Australian
KW  - Semiotics and folk literature
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
KW  -  bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-264) and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Sand stories as social and cultural practice; 3. Catching a move as it flies: multimodal data collection; 4. Lines in the sand; 5. Body-anchored and airborne action; 6. Ordering, re-drawing and erasure; 7. Vocal style in sand stories; 8. Crossing boundaries
N2  - "Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects may be used to represent story characters. This detailed study of Arandic sand stories takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together. This richly illustrated volume is essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication. It adds to the growing recognition that language encompasses much more than speech alone, and shows how important it is to consider the different semiotic resources a culture brings to its communicative tasks as an integrated whole rather than in isolation"--
ER  -