Narrative performances : a study of modern Greek storytelling / Alexandra Georgakopoulou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Georgakopoulou, Alexandra.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 46.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Performance.

Folklore.

Storytelling--Greece.

Storytelling.

Tales--Greece.

Tales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1997.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line of discourse-analytic research on the dynamic relations between narrative forms and functions and their immediate and wider communicative contexts. The volume draws on a large corpus of spontaneous, conversational stories recorded in Greece, where everyday stortytelling is a central mode of communication.

Contents:

NARRATIVE PERFORMANCES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1: Narrative in Discourse Analysis; Chapter 2: Stories in Everyday Conversations: Data and Methods; Chapter 3: The Stories' Formal Structure; Chapter 4: Narrative Organization; Chapter 5: Encoding Subjectivity; Chapter 6: Narrative Functions and Identities in Greek Contexts; Conclusion; Notes; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II: Stories for Children; APPENDIX III: A Sample of Supplementary Corpora; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

90-272-8264-1

9786613222015

1-283-22201-9

OCLC:

607936165