03097nam 22005533 450 991078643340332120230918054832.0(CKB)2670000000309263(EBL)322924(OCoLC)476120256(MiAaPQ)EBC322924(EXLCZ)99267000000030926320130418d2004|||| uy 0engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNarrative as Social Practice Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal Oral Traditions /Danièle M. KlapprothBerlin :De Gruyter,2004.1 online resource (469 pages) 2 mapsLanguage, Power and Social Process [LPSP] ;v.133-11-018137-1 Front matter; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Creating webs of significance: The role of narrative in socio-cultural construction of reality; Chapter 3. The narrative sharing of words: Storytelling as communicative interaction; Chapter 4. Exploring the structure of narrated worlds: The search for study schemata; Chapter 5. The Beautiful and the Beasty: Cultural specifics of Anglo-Western narrative aesthetics; Chapter 6. Always keeping track: Text building strategies in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunyjatjara storytelling; Chapter 7. Holding the world in place: The interrelatedness of story, practice, and culture Chapter 8. Conclusions and implications; Back matterThis is a highly original comparative study of the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures, Anglo-Western culture and Central Australian Aboriginal culture. Concerned with both theoretical and empirical issues, this book offers a critical discussion of the most influential theories of narrative. It evaluates them on the basis of textual analyses of Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal oral narratives, viewed in the context of the different storytelling practices, values and worldviews in both cultures. The book offers new insights to readers interested in linguistics,Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]Aboriginal AustraliansReligionDiscourse analysis, NarrativeAustraliaOral traditionAustraliaOral traditionEnglish-speaking countriesStorytellingAustraliaStorytellingEnglish-speaking countriesLiterature and stories - Story telling and story tellersaiatsissAboriginal AustraliansDiscourse analysis, NarrativeOral traditionOral traditionStorytellingStorytellingLiterature and stories - Story telling and story tellers.398.2398/.089/9915Klapproth Danièle M.1962-1575472AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910786433403321Narrative as Social Practice3852478UNINA