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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778950603321

Autore

De Fina Anna

Titolo

Analyzing narrative : discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives / / Anna De Fina and Alexandra Georgakopoulou [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-107-22612-0

1-139-19962-5

1-280-56839-9

9786613597991

1-139-20550-1

1-139-05125-3

1-139-20331-2

1-139-20629-X

1-139-20189-1

1-139-20471-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

LAN009000

Disciplina

808.036

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric)

Discourse analysis - Social aspects

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. Narrative definitions, issues and approaches; 2. Narrative as text and structure; 3. Narrative and sociocultural variability; 4. Narrative interaction; 5. Narrative power, authority and ownership; 6. Narrative and identities.

Sommario/riassunto

The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical



modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.