Marla Perkins

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marla Perkins is involved.

Articles

Perkins, Marla 2022 Parity lost: Polyphony, silence, and syncretism between traditional Hobongan and modern cultural practices When Dialogue Fails, Müller-Wood, Anja (ed.), pp. 150–168 | Article

Following Bakhtin (e.g., [1999] 1984, 184), dialogue studies have assumed at least some form of parity between dialogic participants. But what happens when parity is significantly disrupted or lost entirely? In this report of cultural practice among the Hobongan living on the island of Borneo, I… read more

Perkins, Marla 2013 Orienting the reader: Discourse strategies for conversing about spatial information in George Orwell’s Burmese Days Literary Linguistics, Müller-Wood, Anja (ed.), pp. 71–92 | Article

This study examines strategies that authors can use in texts to keep readers active and accurate participants in the literary conversation and sets forth a taxonomy of those strategies: initiating the literary conversation, anticipating, preventing and correcting possible misunderstandings, and… read more