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ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the functions of interactional devices used by co-tellers in multiparty stories in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u, two closely related dialects of a Paman language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Within the Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u speech community there is a strong cultural preference for multiparty storytelling – a preference which has been noted in a number of Aboriginal Australian contexts. This paper seeks to understand the mechanisms through which co-tellers in these multiparty narratives contribute to the story. It first discusses co-teller roles, and distinguishes three key narrator roles and orders of conduct associated with each. The analysis then focuses on the use of questions and evaluative comments used by one type of co-teller, supporting narrators. The following discussion demonstrates that questions and evaluative comments go beyond immediate functions of seeking information or spontaneous expressive reactions. They help to fulfil expectations on supporting narrators to engage actively in the talk. It is additionally shown that these devices have functions in highlighting key aspects of the story and developing stance in intricate ways that complement the main line of the storytelling. The analysis demonstrates the close coordination of co-tellers in constructing a story; piece-by-piece they collaboratively describe and evaluate the story events as a group, prioritizing a local and situated shared telling over other potential story goals like performance and progressivity of a plot. The analysis of Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u storytelling contributes to the field of interaction and narrative studies by furthering our understanding of the organization of storytelling in different cultures and languages contexts.
摘要本文分析了澳大利亚约克角半岛帕曼语的两种密切相关方言Umpila和Kuuku Ya 'u在多方故事中共同讲述者使用的互动装置的功能。在Umpila和Kuuku Ya 'u语言社区中,有一种强烈的文化偏好,即多方讲故事-这种偏好在许多澳大利亚土著语境中都有所体现。本文试图理解这些多方叙述中的共同讲述者对故事的贡献机制。首先讨论了共同讲述者的角色,并区分了三种主要的叙述者角色以及与之相关的行为准则。然后分析集中在一种类型的辅助叙述者所使用的问题和评价评论的使用上。下面的讨论表明,问题和评价性评论超越了寻求信息或自发表达反应的直接功能。它们有助于实现支持叙述者积极参与谈话的期望。此外,这些手段在突出故事的关键方面和以复杂的方式发展立场方面发挥了作用,补充了故事的主线。分析表明,共同讲述者在故事构建过程中的密切配合;他们作为一个团队,一块一块地合作描述和评估故事事件,优先考虑局部和位置的共享讲述,而不是其他潜在的故事目标,如情节的表现和进展。对乌姆皮拉语和库库语的分析有助于加深我们对不同文化和语言背景下讲故事组织的理解,从而有助于互动和叙事研究领域。