Abstract

VAPNARSKY, Valentina. Paralelismo, ciclicidad y creatividad en el arte verbal maya yucateco. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2008, vol.32, pp.155-199. ISSN 0185-2574.

In this paper we argue that parallelism as a discursive recourse in the Maya oral tradition plays a crucial role at different levels of discursive organization, and not only at the level of the verse and contiguous units as is generally assumed. We analyze the variety of levels at which parallelisms are at play, as well as the relation of parallelism with other rhetorical figures, in particular cyclicity which stands out as an important recourse for the deployment of parallelisms through distant units. The analysis is based on a detailed study of a ritual dialogue of San Juan Bautista's peregrination among the Maya Macehuales (cruso'ob) from Quintana Roo (Mexico). it confirms that discursive parallelisms must be considered not only as esthetical or poetical elements, with their emotional and emphatic effects, but also as procedures of macro-discursive organization, with thematic, semantic and pragmatic functions.

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