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 -- References -- Appendix -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Analysis -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 3. Storytelling in animation narratives -- Clausal self-repetition and pre-nominal demonstratives in Japanese and English animation narratives -- Data -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 4. Storytelling in talk shows and survey interviews -- Storytelling in a Japanese television talk show -- Previous studies -- Data -- Analysis of the host's responsive behavior -- Continuers -- Repetition -- Stance display 1 -- Stance display 2 -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix.

Telling about experiences in three-party survey interviews -- Previous research -- Participatory framework of survey interviews -- "Second stories" -- Data -- Analysis of Interview 1 -- Analysis of Interview 2 -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 5. Storytelling in university lectures -- The functions of narratives in Japanese university lecture discourse -- Previous research -- Data -- Analysis -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Creating involvement in a large Japanese lecture -- Previous research -- 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) -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Addresses for contributors to Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre -- Author index -- Subject index -- The series Studies in Narrative.