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- Topic #1: Discourse
Divination Discourse in Bezen
Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyse one divination session in Bezen, a Southern Jukunoid language. Usually, divination is analysed by anthropologists, approaching the topic with questions particular to this field of study. In this article, the divination session is viewed from a linguistic perspective. The internal macro-structuring of the session is described, using instruments from conversational analysis which consider linguistic and extra-linguistic phenomena. A further focus is the syntactic organization of the addresses to the deities and their answers as well as the rhetorical devices employed in the discourse.