Narrative in English conversation : a corpus analysis of storytelling /

"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 Ruhlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery...

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Main Author: Rühlemann, Christoph (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Studies in English language.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Towards a working definition of conversational narrative
  • 2. Data, methodology, and tools
  • 3. How do narrators and recipients co-construct turntaking?
  • 4. Recipient design I: how do narrators mark discourse presentation?
  • 5. Recipient design II: how do narrators use discourse presentation for dramatization?
  • 6. How do recipients co-author stories?
  • 7. Summary, conclusions and directions for future research
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3.