Storytelling across Japanese conversational genre / edited by Polly E. Szatrowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szatrowski, Polly Ellen.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; v. 13.

Studies in narrative, 1568-2706 ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Prosodic analysis.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Spoken Japanese.

Storytelling--Japan.

Storytelling.

Physical Description:

vi, 313 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves. The analyses of storytelling in casual conversation, animation narratives, television talk shows, survey interviews, and large university lectures focus on participation/participatory framework, topical coherence, involvement, knowledge, the story recipient's role, prosody and nonverbal behavior. Story tellers across genre are shown to use linguistic/paralinguistic (prosody, reported speech, style shifting, demonstratives, repetition, ellipsis, co-construction, connectives, final particles, onomatopoeia) and nonverbal (gesture, gaze, head nodding) devices to involve their recipients, and recipients also use a multiple of devices (laughter, repetition, responsive forms, posture changes) to shape the development of the stories. Nonverbal behavior proves to be a rich resource and constitutive feature of storytelling across genre. The analyses also shed new light on grammar across genre (ellipsis, demonstratives, clause combining), and illustrate a variety of methods for studying genre.

Contents:

Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Part 1. Introduction

Introduction

Overview of linguistic research on Japanese oral narrative/storytelling

Definitions and approaches to storytelling/narrative

Themes in this volume

How stories shape genre and how genre shape stories

Involvement

Negotiating shared knowledge

The role of the story recipient

Prosody/nonverbal behavior

References

Appendix

Data

Japanese Romanization (Szatrowski 2004, p. viii)

Part 2. Storytelling in casual conversation

Manipulation of voices in the development of a story

Previous research on direct reported speech in conversation

Analysis of a storytelling between two friends

Structure of the story

Internal and external evaluation

Evaluation by direct reported speech

The recipient as a cooperative participant

Analysis of the prosody and voice quality of direct reported speech

The Beginning Stage, where no laughter occurs

The Middle Stage, where light laughter occurs

The final stage, where loud and hearty laughter occurs

Enactment of voices and interaction

Conclusion

Ellipsis and action in a Japanese joint storytelling series

Previous studies

Analysis

Fujio's story: Elliptical information and body movements

Using pointing gestures to indicate elliptical information

Fujio's action in his story: Accusation against Taku

Seiji's story: Gaze and body movements in elliptical utterances and story participation

Gaze, pointing gestures, and story interpretations

Action in Seiji's story: From taking blame to self-defense to accusation

Taku's story: Gaze, pointing gestures, and prior sequence in elliptical utterances.

How the local environment and prior sequences are embedded in elliptical utterances

Taku's action in his story: Countering Fujio's and Seiji's interpretation

Appendix A

Appendix B

Sharing a personal discovery of a taste

Previous research

Deixis and prospective indexicals

Anaphoric distal demonstratives in Japanese

Interactional functions of Japanese distal demonstratives in conversation

Overview of the storytelling about kakuni 'stewed pork belly'

The conversation prior to Telling Sequence I

Telling Sequence I: Eriko's telling about her discovery of a new taste (kakuni)

Telling Sequence II: Eriko and Hana's co-telling about the food kakuni

Telling Sequence III: Eriko's story

Part 3. Storytelling in animation narratives

Clausal self-repetition and pre-nominal demonstratives in Japanese and English animation narratives

Clausal self-repetition

Previous studies on clausal self-repetition

Syntactic relation between the preceding and repeating clauses

Sequence of events and relationships in descriptions of the snowball scene

Discourse function of clausal self-repetition

Use of pre-nominal demonstratives for people and objects in the animation

Previous studies on demonstratives

Analysis of the use of pre-nominal demonstratives in the Japanese and English narratives

Use of pre-nominal demonstratives in the Japanese data

Use of pre-nominal demonstratives in the English data

Part 4. Storytelling in talk shows and survey interviews

Storytelling in a Japanese television talk show

Analysis of the host's responsive behavior

Continuers

Repetition

Stance display 1

Stance display 2

Appendix.

Telling about experiences in three-party survey interviews

Participatory framework of survey interviews

"Second stories"

Analysis of Interview 1

Analysis of Interview 2

Discussion

Part 5. Storytelling in university lectures

The functions of narratives in Japanese university lecture discourse

Illustration narratives

Elaboration narratives

1. Elaboration (Detail) narratives

2. Elaboration (Review/Preview) narratives

3. Elaboration (Epitome) narratives

Presentation of a Topic/Problem narratives

Rapport narratives

Creating involvement in a large Japanese lecture

Evaluation, involvement and gesture

Storytelling devices

1. Topical coherence

2. Knowledge questions

3. Groundwork, confirming circumstances (yo ne, ne, desyo?)

4. Evaluation

Analysis: The lecture storytelling

Previous talk: Botchan's suggestive quotation (229-242)

Introducing the story

Developing the story: Story of the haiku suggested by Botchan's quotation (252-268)

Completing the story: The meaning of the haiku (269-270)

Return to the lecture: Botchan's quotation as a parody, suggestive quotation (273-283)

Addresses for contributors to Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre

Author index

Subject index

The series Studies in Narrative.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612895814

9781282895812

1282895818

9789027287939

9027287937

OCLC:

680036248