The sociolinguistics of narrative / edited by Joanna Thornborrow, Jennifer Coates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thornborrow, Joanna, 1957-

Coates, Jennifer.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; v. 6.

Studies in narrative, 1568-2706 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2005.

Language Note:

English

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 determine the production and shape of situated stories, and what are the core elements of narrative as a discursive unit and interactional resource?; how is the relationship between narrative discourse and social context articulated in the construction of cultural identities? The data come both from institutional settings such as workplaces, courtrooms, schools, and the media, as well as from informal everyday settings.

Contents:

The Sociolinguistics of Narrative

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

The sociolinguistics of narrative

Introduction

Theorising oral narrative

Narrative form

The narrative sequence

Beginnings, middles and endings

Narrative context

The boundaries of narrative

Narrative function

Narrative and social identity

Performance in narrative discourse

Narrative and culture

Methodology and techniques of transcription

Conclusions

Notes

Narrative as a resource in accounts of the experience of illness

DIPEx: A database of individual patients' experiences of illness

Rose and Josephine

Extract (1)

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Defining narrative

Rose

Classic narrative forms

Extract (4)

Habitual narratives

Extract (5)

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Comparison with others

Extract (7)

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Because narratives

Extract (9)

Reported speech

Extract (10)

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Summary: Rose

Josephine

The first experience of illness

Extract (13)

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Summary: Josephine

Conclusion

Note

Transcription conventions

Storying East-German pasts

The two communities

Research methodology

Narrative and identity

The data

Extract 1

Features of Eva's narrative

Extract 2

Features of Ralf's narrative

Extract 3

Extract 4

Conclusion: Narrative and memory

Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation

Narrative in cultural performance

The stories and the evaluative data

RP3 Cheltenham The belt sander accident

SW4 Carmarthen The fat rugby player

Mid6 Newtown The tipping tractor.

NW10 Blaenau Ffestiniog The strange motorcyclist

Cardiff11 The pool table

Evaluative profiles of the five speakers

Performance demands for teenagers' stories

Matching and missing performance demands

Discussion

Masculinity, collaborative narration and the heterosexual couple

Introductory

Collaborative narration

Storytelling as duet

Alternative masculinities

New men?

Contextualizing and recontextualizing interlaced stories in conversation

Interlaced stories, response stories, and co-narration

The data and context

The two proposal stories

THE PROPOSAL STORIES

Retelling: The double engagement story

THE DOUBLE ENGAGEMENT STORY

Appendix

Hearing voices

Friendship, gender and storytelling

A male friendship, and an alcoholic's narratives

Re-telling and recording the story, and its sequel

The transcript

Analysing the transcript

Victimhood, identity, gender and narrative

Modes of meaning making in young children's conversational storytelling

Extract 1. Tarzan-part 11

Telling: Negotiating story entry and supporting fellow-tellers

Extract 2. The Swimming Contest

Extract 3. Pokémon in the Laundry

Tales: The joint co-construction of imaginary worlds

Extract 4. The Squirrels

The discursive powers of imagination

Extract 5. Pika: The true story

Tellers: Negotiating issues of gender identity

Extract 6. Tarzan (part b)

Summary

What a Terrible Horrible Dream

Two systems of mutual engagement

Two Systems of Mutual Engagement

Features of these girls' narrative engagement:

Features of these boys' narrative engagement:

Gender in language practices.

Method

Results

Basic measures

Topic development

Discourse examples

Three-speaker integrated and coordinated talk

Example 1. ``It's butter!'' (35 seconds)

Example 2. ``I need to cut up my soup!'' (160 seconds)

Boys' three speaker parallel talk

Example 3. ``Hey, cheese!'' (108 seconds)

Example 4. ``I'll be the doctor for a minute, ok?'' (90 seconds)

Grounding

Acknowledgements

Narrative and the construction of professional identity in the workplace

The dataset

Business talk

Defining narrative: What counts as a `workplace anecdote'?

Example 1.4 Near miss

Example 2.

Example 3. Christian and the cops

Example 4. Ronny and the video

Workplace anecdotes and professional identity

Leila: Manager in a government department

Example 5. The Flying Filing Squad

Ginette: Manager in soap powder factory

Example 6. David and the vacuum cleaner

Telling stories and giving evidence

Narrative vs. non-narrative discourse

Narrative structures in courtroom discourse

Textual features of narratives in trial language

Opening statement narratives

Extract 5

Extract 6

Narrative, non-narrative and hybridity as evidence

Extract 7

Extract 8

Extract 9

Hybridisation and intermingling of evidence narratives

Extract 10

Extract 11

Corroborating narratives as evidence

Extract 12

Extract 13

Television news and narrative

Some textual features and principles of intelligibility of television news reports

Tense

Textual cohesion in television news reports: The interplay of the visual with the verbal.

Principles of intelligibility in TV news reports

The intelligibility of television news reports: An example

Conclusions: Narrative or commentary?

Data and transcription

Performing theories of narrative

Narrative politics

Performativity

Rewriting: Theory as narrative and intertextuality

Micro-analysis and genre

Micro-analysis and theory

Genre and narrative

References

Index

The series Studies in Narrative.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-293) and index.

ISBN:

9786612156564

9781282156562

128215656X

9789027294272

9027294275