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There are some linguistic and cultural features which are common to all types of oral narratives, and others which are genre-specific. Here we will address the features specific to folk tale narration, including opening and closing formulas, time markers, recurrent themes, rhyme and the ditty.
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© 2014 Nadia R. Sirhan
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Sirhan, N.R. (2014). The Texts. In: Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325761_8
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