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Author Karatsu, Mariko.

Title Conversational storytelling among Japanese women : conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories / Mariko Karatsu.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Studies in narrative ; v. 16
Studies in narrative ; v. 16.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 el.
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Subject Storytelling -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Storytelling -- Social aspects.
Japan.
Storytelling.
Women storytellers -- Japan.
Women storytellers.
Japanese language -- Prosodic analysis.
Japanese language -- Prosodic analysis.
Japanese language.
Japanese language -- Spoken Japanese.
Japanese language -- Spoken Japanese.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781283895330 (DLC) 2012030709
ISBN 9789027226563 (Cloth)
9027226563 (Cloth)
9781283895330 (MyiLibrary)
1283895331 (MyiLibrary)
9789027273123 (electronic book)
902727312X (electronic book)