| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 299 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in narrative,
1568-2706 ;
v. 6
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Studies in narrative ; v. 6.
1568-2706
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index. |
| Contents |
The Sociolinguistics of Narrative; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; The sociolinguistics of narrative; Narrative as a resource in accounts of the experience of illness; Storying East-German pasts; Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation; Masculinity, collaborative narration and the heterosexual couple; Contextualizing and recontextualizing interlaced stories in conversation; Hearing voices; Modes of meaning making in young children's conversational storytelling; Two systems of mutual engagement. |
| Summary |
This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts. The chapters presented here bring together some of the most recent work in the theory and practice of narrative analysis from a broad sociolinguistic perspective. They address some of the questions left implicit whenever stories are brought within the analytic frame of sociolinguistics: What exactly do we mean by 'story'?; what kind of social and contextual variations can d. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative. |
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Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Thornborrow, Joanna, 1957-
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Coates, Jennifer, 1942-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sociolinguistics of narrative. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2005 (DLC) 2005043601 |
| ISBN |
9789027294272 (electronic book) |
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9027294275 (electronic book) |
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9789027226464 (Eur. ; alkaline paper) |
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9027226466 (Eur. ; alkaline paper) |
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9781588116352 (U.S. ; hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1588116352 (U.S. ; hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027226466 (Eur. ; alkaline paper) |
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1588116352 (U.S. ; hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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