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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965993103321

Autore

Georgakopoulou Alexandra

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c1997

ISBN

90-272-8264-1

9786613222015

1-283-22201-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages)

Collana

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

Disciplina

808.5/43/09495

Soggetti

Folklore - Performance

Storytelling - Greece

Tales - Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.