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…
In this work, leading scholars illustrate how narratives build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and culture; and they investigate various settings such as therapeutic and medical encounters, educational environments, politics, media, marketing, and public …
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…
The origins of this volume lie in the international conference Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2012, convened by the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association. The proceedings of the conference revolved around three major thematic areas: metaphorical and metonymic underpinnings…