Hartmann John F. Linguistic and memory structures in Tai-Lue oral narratives

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 240 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 90).This book is an introduction to some of the ways in which language and memory intersect in the l iving performance of two Lue singers of Hindu-Buddhist inspired tales of the creation of the universe. It is a study of the psycholinguistic behaviour of two individuals set in a social, geographical and cultural environment: the use of memory and creativity in chanting a narrative at a Lue village ceremony in Greater South-east Asia.