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Title
2 "Let Me Tell You a Story, Let Me Tell You a Story!" - On Text Structure and Narrative Strategies.
Abstract
The article discusses the structures of oral texts and a narrative strategy for recalling information. The author mentions role of oral texts provide the mnemonic elements that help during retelling. Topics discussed includes opening formula used by Banyarwanda-Bafumbira narrators, mnemonic qualities of the oral texts and formulaic narrative style of storytelling.