The traditional stories show more narrative features. We can easily find that there are always some fixed sentence patterns in traditional stories, such as “that is all” serves as an ending symbol in Turtle Goes to War(Deloria, 1932) and “once upon a time” as a beginning sentence in the Yellow Women stories. By using these fixed sentences, the traditional storytellers put themselves merely as transmitters, not owners, of their stories. At the same time, traditional stories were expressed in a way with more oral habits, like more repetitious and parallelism sentences. For example, in the beginning of Evil Kachina Steals Yellow Woman (Allen, Paula Gunn,1989), two continuous sentences have repeated exactly same words, “then Yellow Woman went for water. With her jar Yellow Woman went for water.” Or different sentences with the same meanings, like “He had lost his wife. She was not there.” There are more parallelism sentences expressed a strong feelings in
The traditional stories show more narrative features. We can easily find that there are always some fixed sentence patterns in traditional stories, such as “that is all” serves as an ending symbol in Turtle Goes to War(Deloria, 1932) and “once upon a time” as a beginning sentence in the Yellow Women stories. By using these fixed sentences, the traditional storytellers put themselves merely as transmitters, not owners, of their stories. At the same time, traditional stories were expressed in a way with more oral habits, like more repetitious and parallelism sentences. For example, in the beginning of Evil Kachina Steals Yellow Woman (Allen, Paula Gunn,1989), two continuous sentences have repeated exactly same words, “then Yellow Woman went for water. With her jar Yellow Woman went for water.” Or different sentences with the same meanings, like “He had lost his wife. She was not there.” There are more parallelism sentences expressed a strong feelings in