Conversational Narrative

Author : Neal R. Norrick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027237101
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversational Narrative written by Neal R. Norrick and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. It develops a rhetoric of everyday storytelling through an integrated approach to both the internal structure and the contextual integration of narrative passages. It aims at a more complete picture of oral narrative through analysis of a wider range of natural data, including personal anecdotes told for humor, put-down stories told for self-aggrandizement, family stories retold to ratify membership and so on, as well as marginal stories and narrative-like passages to delineate the boundaries of conversational storytelling and to test the analytical techniques proposed.Using transcriptions of stories from everyday talk, Norrick explores disfluencies, formulaicity and repetition as teller strategies and listener cues alongside global phenomena such as retelling and narrative macrostructures. He also extends his analysis to narrative jokes from conversation and to narrative passages in drama, namely Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" and Beckett's "Endgame."

Author : Christoph Rühlemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107650232
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative in English Conversation written by Christoph Rühlemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base, Rühlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.

Author : Mariko Karatsu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027226563
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversational Storytelling Among Japanese Women written by Mariko Karatsu and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories. Focusing on the participants' verbal and nonverbal behavior and their use of linguistic devices, the chapters describe how the participants display their orientation to the a) embeddedness of the story in the conversation, b) their views of past events, c) their knowledge about the story content and elements, and d) their social circumstances, and how these four elements are relevant for a story becoming worth telling and sharing. The book furthers the sociolinguistic analysis of conversational storytelling by describing how the participants' concerns about social circumstances as members of a particular community, specifically their role relationships and interpersonal relationships with others, influence the shape of their storytelling.

Author : Elinor Ochs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041593
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Narrative written by Elinor Ochs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create selves and communities. Focusing on the ways in which narrative is co-constructed, and on the variety of moral stances embodied in conversation, the authors draw out the instructive inconsistencies of these collaborative narratives, whose contents and ordering are subject to dispute, flux, and discovery. In an eloquent last chapter, written as Capps was waging her final battle with cancer, they turn to unfinished narratives, those stories that will never have a comprehensible end. With a hybrid perspective--part humanities, part social science--their book captures these complexities and fathoms the intricate and potent narratives that live within and among us.

Author : Mariko Karatsu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727312X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women written by Mariko Karatsu and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories. Focusing on the participants’ verbal and nonverbal behavior and their use of linguistic devices, the chapters describe how the participants display their orientation to the a) embeddedness of the story in the conversation, b) their views of past events, c) their knowledge about the story content and elements, and d) their social circumstances, and how these four elements are relevant for a story becoming worth telling and sharing. The book furthers the sociolinguistic analysis of conversational storytelling by describing how the participants’ concerns about social circumstances as members of a particular community, specifically their role relationships and interpersonal relationships with others, influence the shape of their storytelling.

Author : Polly E. Szatrowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287937
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre written by Polly E. Szatrowski and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves. The analyses of storytelling in casual conversation, animation narratives, television talk shows, survey interviews, and large university lectures focus on participation/participatory framework, topical coherence, involvement, knowledge, the story recipient’s role, prosody and nonverbal behavior. Story tellers across genre are shown to use linguistic/paralinguistic (prosody, reported speech, style shifting, demonstratives, repetition, ellipsis, co-construction, connectives, final particles, onomatopoeia) and nonverbal (gesture, gaze, head nodding) devices to involve their recipients, and recipients also use a multiple of devices (laughter, repetition, responsive forms, posture changes) to shape the development of the stories. Nonverbal behavior proves to be a rich resource and constitutive feature of storytelling across genre. The analyses also shed new light on grammar across genre (ellipsis, demonstratives, clause combining), and illustrate a variety of methods for studying genre.

Author : Christoph Rühlemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196981
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative in English Conversation written by Christoph Rühlemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on new data and cutting-edge technologies, this study investigates how narrators and recipients cooperate when telling stories.

Author : David Boje
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183910418X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation written by David Boje and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the idea of conversational storytelling interviewing (CSI) as an ‘indirect’ method of interviewing, David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile explore this innovative methodological framework as a way for respondents to tell their own story, without resorting to structured or semi-structured interviews.

Author : Maren Rüsch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004437592
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Conversational Analysis of Acholi written by Maren Rüsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume elucidates various interaction strategies for the Nilotic language Acholi. Based on detailed examples, Maren Rüsch links the structural organization of Acholi conversations to cultural features such as politeness, language socialization and narrations.

Author : Amy M. Lindstrom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793604622
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unexpressed Subjects in English written by Amy M. Lindstrom and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexpressed Subjects in English: An Empirical Analysis of Narrative and Conversational Discourse challenges previous assumptions of what is grammatically possible in English through an examination of contexts in which speakers omit subjects, demonstrating how language structure is influenced by communicative needs. Through corpus-based analysis of both interactive conversations and monologic narratives, Amy M. Lindstrom reveals how the discourse/pragmatic factors of accessibility and chronological ordering, the prosodic effect of linking, and the mechanical effect of priming intersect to provide a rigorous account of subject (un)expression in spoken American English. Higher degrees of linking, cohesion, and connection lead to more unexpressed subjects. Lindstrom also analyzes frequent constructions with unexpressed subjects vis-à-vis paths of grammaticalization. The author presents a measurement of discourse connectedness that shows how the intersection of prosody and pragmatics illustrates the powerful effect of spontaneous discourse in shaping grammar. This study adds to our understanding of language and cognition by contributing to our knowledge of the conceptualization, categorization, and representation of experience and memory.