Lisepsep encounter

Detailed Metadata

• lat-session
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  • Name : Lisepsep encounter
  • Title : Encounter with female lisepsep
  • Date : 2009-10-29
  • descriptions
    • Description : The senior male speaker recounts the tale of an eye-witness who saw a female lisepsep and her baby in her youth.
  • Location
    • Continent : Oceania
    • Country : Vanuatu
    • Address : Sesivi
  • Project
    • Name : Ambrym
    • Title : Languages of Southwest Ambrym
    • Id :
    • Contact
      • Name : Manfred Krifka
      • Address : ZAS, Schützenstr. 18, D-10117 Berlin
      • Email : krifka@zas.gwz-berlin.de
      • Organisation : Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
    • descriptions
      • Description : The goal of this project is the documentation of the three major languages in the Southwest of the pacific island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The major objectives include the creation of both academic and local dictionaries, grammatical descriptions of the three languages as well as extensive recordings of the languages with an emphasis on language use in connection with specific cultural pracitces such as sand drawings, dances and songs.
  • Keys
    • Key : Lisepsep
    • Key : Myth
  • Content
    • Genre : Discourse
    • SubGenre : Narrative
    • Task : Unspecified
    • Modalities : speech
    • Subject : Lisepsep
    • CommunicationContext
      • Interactivity : non-interactive
      • PlanningType : semi-spontaneous
      • Involvement : Unspecified
      • SocialContext : Controlled environment
      • EventStructure : Monologue
      • Channel : Face to Face
    • Content_Languages
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:bpa
        • Name : Dakaka
        • Dominant : true
        • SourceLanguage : false
        • TargetLanguage : true
        • descriptions
          • Description : Daakaka is an Austronesian language spoken in one area of West Ambrym, Vanuatu, which reaches from Emyotungan to Sanesup. It has about 1200 speakers and is still aquired as the first language by children.
    • descriptions
      • Description : In the recording, the speaker recounts what an old woman once told him about her encounter with a lisepsep: When she was a young girl, there used to live a female lisepsep in the bush. This lisepsep went to look for shellfish at the sea and she put her newborn baby under a cycad to wait for her there. When some women and girls, among them the witness, went to the bush to collect edible leaves, they saw the baby under the cycad. To their horror, the newborn child could already speak and he pleaded for them not to harm him, his mother would be back shortly. Terrified, the women ran back to the village. The men of the village gathered and set out to find the child. But when they arrived at the cycad, the mother had already taken the child and flown away.
  • Actors
    • descriptions
      • Description : The story was told by DM, recorded, transcribed and translated by Kilu von Prince, with the help of AU.
    • Actor
      • Role : Consultant
      • Name : DM
      • FullName : DM
      • Code : DM
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup :
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : Unspecified
      • Anonymized : true
      • Age
        • EstimatedAge : Unspecified
      • Contact :
      • descriptions
        • Description : This elderly is an senior member of his community in Sesivi. He has a substantial knowledge about traditional customs and kastom stories and is greatly concerned with the conservation of the language. He has created several neologisms in order to refer to imported and novel items such as plates, radios or cell phones without using words of Bislama or English.
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:fra
          • Name : French
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:bis
          • Name : Bislama
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Bislama is a creole with English as the main lexifier language and structural similarities to other Austronesian languages. It is one of three national languages of Vanuatu, together with English and French. It is the main language used in primary education, the parliament and church service and is widely used in the news media. It is the most important medium for communication among speakers with different mother tongues.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:bpa
          • Name : Dakaka
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
          • descriptions
            • Description : Daakaka is an Austronesian language spoken in one area of West Ambrym, Vanuatu, which reaches from Emyotungan to Sanesup. It has about 1200 speakers and is still aquired as the first language by children.
    • Actor
      • Role : Translator
      • Name : AU
      • FullName : AU
      • Code : AU
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup :
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : Unspecified
      • Anonymized : Unspecified
      • Age
        • EstimatedAge : Unspecified
      • Contact :
      • descriptions
        • Description : The speaker is in his late twenties and lives in Sesivi. He works in the health center in Baiap and has received a good French education at the local school in Sesivi. He is very much concerned with the preservation of his mother tongue.
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:bis
          • Name : Bislama
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Bislama is a creole with English as the main lexifier language and structural similarities to other Austronesian languages. It is one of three national languages of Vanuatu, together with English and French. It is the main language used in primary education, the parliament and church service and is widely used in the news media. It is the most important medium for communication among speakers with different mother tongues.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:bpa
          • Name : Dakaka
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
          • descriptions
            • Description : Daakaka is an Austronesian language spoken in one area of West Ambrym, Vanuatu, which reaches from Emyotungan to Sanesup. It has about 1200 speakers and is still aquired as the first language by children.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:fra
          • Name : French
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
    • Actor
      • Role : Annotator
      • Name : von Prince
      • FullName : Kilu von Prince
      • Code : KvP
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup :
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Unspecified
      • Education : Unspecified
      • Anonymized : Unspecified
      • Age
        • EstimatedAge : Unspecified
      • Contact
        • Name : Kilu von Prince
        • Address : Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Schützenstr. 18, D-10117 Berlin
        • Email : prince@zas.gwz-berlin.de
        • Organisation : ZAS, Humboldt University Berlin
      • descriptions
        • Description : Kilu von Prince has chosen the grammar of Daakaka to be the subject of her dissertation. Her purpose in the DoBeS project "Languages of West Ambrym" is to document and to help preserve the languages Daakaka and Ral kalein by collecting language data, establishing lexical databases and providing local communities with orthographies, dictionaries and printed accounts of traditional stories for use in education.
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:deu
          • Name : German
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : Unspecified
          • descriptions
            • Description : German is von Prince's mother tongue.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:bpa
          • Name : Dakaka
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : Unspecified
          • descriptions
            • Description : Kilu has aquired a good working knowledge of the language during her first field trip, allowing her to partly transcribe the recordings and take part in casual conversations.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:bis
          • Name : Bislama
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Bislama is the most important language for interaction with the communities apart from the local languages.
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