Narrative Performances : A study of Modern Greek storytelling.
Title:
Narrative Performances : A study of Modern Greek storytelling.
Author:
Georgakopoulou, Alexandra.
ISBN:
9789027282644
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Series:
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
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 -- 1.1 Definitional Criteria -- 1.1.1 Personal stories -- 1.2 Narrative Organization -- 1.2.1 Stories and schemata -- 1.2.2 Oral narrative structure and Labov -- 1.2.3 The line and stanza structure of narratives -- 1.2.4 Narrative grounding -- 1.3 Narrative Expressivity -- 1.3.1 Evaluation and post-Labovian approaches -- 1.3.2 Evaluation and global discourse structure -- 1.4 The Present Approach: Binding-Unfolding-Evaluating -- 1.4.1 Constituency and binding/unfolding -- 1.4.2 Audience accommodation, storytelling and children -- 1.4.3 Narratives in context -- Chapter 2: Stories in Everyday Conversations: Data and Methods -- 2.1 Data Collection Strategies and the Present Research Design -- 2.1.1 The basic corpus -- 2.1.2 Stories in conversations: the free corpus -- 2.1.3 Stories for adults vs stories for children: an example -- 2.1.4 Supplementary corpora -- 2.2 Situational Coding: Storytelling Initiation and Recipientship -- 2.2.1 Participation structure -- 2.3 Coding for Topic Content -- 2.3.1 Storytelling and family bonds -- 2.3.2 Gendered themes -- 2.3.3 The childhood-theme -- 2.4. Patterns of Structural Sophistication -- 2.4.1 Coding for structural categories -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The Stories' Formal Structure -- 3.1 Patterns of Three and Narrative Organization -- 3.1.1 Tripartite Stanza-Patterning -- 3.1.2 Pattern-creating devices and narrative parts -- 3.2 Alliances of Patterns -- 3.3 Supplementary Corpora -- 3.3.1 Patterns of three and written narration -- 3.3.2 Children's narratives -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Narrative Organization -- 4.1 Time, Space and Participants in Narrative -- 4.2 Connectives vs Discourse Markers.
4.3 Coding of Linkage Relations at Local and Global Level -- 4.3.1 Connectives at local cohesion level -- 4.3.2 Discourse markers at global cohesion level -- 4.3.3 Temporal markers and stories for children -- 4.4 Discourse Markers and the Macrosegmentation of Narrative Part -- 4.5 Participant Tracking -- 4.5.1 Participant tracking and binding -- 4.6 Participant Tracking and Unfolding -- 4.6.1 Switch reference -- 4.6.2 Switch reference and tense shift -- 4.6.3 Characters on stage -- 4.6.3.1 The case of I-pronominal reference. -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Encoding Subjectivity -- 5.1 Narrative Performances -- 5.1.1 Narrative present and constructed dialogue: patterns of use -- 5.1.2 Reiteration devices and symmetrical inter-stanza patterning -- 5.2 Proximity and Narrative Performances -- 5.2.1 Evidence and narrative performances -- Interim Summary -- 5.3 Performances and Stories for Children -- 5.4 The Displaced Mode of Written Stories -- 5.5 Audience Accommodation and Involvement -- 5.3 Performances and Stories for Children -- 5.4 The Displaced Mode of Written Stories -- 5.5 Audience Accommodation and Involvement -- 5.5.1 Involvement without dramatization -- 5.6 Summary: Oral vs Literate Strategies of Narration -- Chapter 6: Narrative Functions and Identities in Greek Contexts -- 6.1 The Indexicality of Performances -- 6.1.1 Tellers ' self-presentation -- 6.1.2 Group-bonding functions and the sense of community -- 6.1.3 Constructed dialogue and gender identity -- 6.1.4 Gender construction through narrative worlds -- 6.2 Audience Accommodation in Sociocultural Context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- APPENDIX I -- 1. Stanza and Highpoint Analysis in the Story of "Forty Five Johnnies" -- 2. A political rally that went wrong -- 3. A tragic death (version a) -- 4. A stagnight.
5. An officer's wedding -- 6. A comedian in the streets of Athens -- 7. The taxi-driver was a porn-star -- APPENDIX II: Stories for Children -- 1. An unforgettable Christmas -- 2. My pet, the hare -- 3. My daughter's accident -- 4. The dog who hated being lied to -- 5. A tragic death (version b) -- 6. Lost in the mountains -- APPENDIX III: A Sample of Supplementary Corpora -- 1. a. Story for adults -- b. Story for Children -- 2. a. Story for Adults -- b. Story for Children -- Children's Stories -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.
Abstract:
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 in the community's interactional contexts and thus a rich site for a meaningful enactment of social stances, roles, and relations. The study brings to the fore the stories' text-constitutive mechanisms and explores the ways in which they situate the narrated experiences globally, by invoking sociocultural knowledge and expectations, and locally, by making them sequentially and interactionally relevant to the specific conversational contexts. The stories' micro- and macro-level analysis, richly illustrated with narrative transcripts throughout, leads to the uncovery of a global mode of narrative performance which is based on a closed set of recurrent devices. It is argued that the choice or avoidance of this mode is at the heart of the stories' (re)constitution of a self, an other and a sociocultural world. The numerous cases of intergenerational narrative communication (adults-children) shed additional light on the performance's contextualization aspects and contribute to the cross-cultural understanding of the dynamics of oral performances.Besides students and researchers of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, narrative analysis and Greek studies, this book will also appeal to all those interested in communication and
cultural studies.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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