"הסיפור האישי" - על חבל דק בין אוראליות לאוריינות: סיפורן של נשים בדואיות

This paper presents findings on the use of evaluative devices in the stories of Bedouin women from the North of Israel, who are illiterate but are also literate in their own way.Quantitative and qualitative analyses illustrate the commonalities and differences in how evaluative devices are employed in personal experience narratives produced by women from three generations: great-grandmothers,grandmothers, and young mothers, all living in the same area. The analyses focused on the evaluative devices that report on their inner states: their emotions,feelings, thoughts, and sensations, as expressed either via the use of mental or cognitive as well as emotive verbs or via direct speech.While no clear relationship was found between the women from the three generations in how they report on their inner states in their stories, in each group we found specific patterns of usage for these devices, emphasizing the point of view of the storyteller.The study highlights the importance of the oral story and its significance in representing the socio-cultural reality, especially in societies that still preserve the oral tradition. Furthermore, it calls on speech and language clinicians to beat tentive to the discourse styles of the populations they meet.