Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both person…
Telling stories: language, narrative, and social life ; [the 2008 …
by Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, D.C.), Schiffrin, Deborah, De Fina, Anna, GURT, Washington, D.C.), Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC, Georgetown University
Introduction / Deborah Schiffrin and Anna De Fina -- Where Should I begin? / William Labov -- The remediation of storytelling : Narrative performance on early commercial sound recordings / Richard Bauman -- Narrative, culture, and mind / Jerome Bruner -- Positioning as a metagra…