The Sociolinguistics of Narrative -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- The sociolinguistics of narrative -- Introduction -- Theorising oral narrative -- Narrative form -- The narrative sequence -- Beginnings, middles and endings -- Narrative context -- The boundaries of narrative -- Narrative function -- Narrative and social identity -- Performance in narrative discourse -- Narrative and culture -- Methodology and techniques of transcription -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Narrative as a resource in accounts of the experience of illness -- Introduction -- DIPEx: A database of individual patients' experiences of illness -- Rose and Josephine -- Extract (1) -- Extract (2) -- Extract (3) -- Defining narrative -- Rose -- Classic narrative forms -- Extract (4) -- Habitual narratives -- Extract (5) -- Extract (6) -- Comparison with others -- Extract (7) -- Extract (8) -- Because narratives -- Extract (9) -- Reported speech -- Extract (10) -- Extract (11) -- Extract (12) -- Summary: Rose -- Josephine -- The first experience of illness -- Extract (13) -- Comparison with others -- Extract (14) -- Extract (15) -- Extract (16) -- Extract (17) -- Extract (18) -- Extract (19) -- Extract (20) -- Reported speech -- Summary: Josephine -- Conclusion -- Note -- Transcription conventions -- Storying East-German pasts -- Introduction -- The two communities -- Research methodology -- Narrative and identity -- The data -- Extract 1 -- Features of Eva's narrative -- Extract 2 -- Features of Ralf's narrative -- Extract 3 -- Extract 4 -- Conclusion: Narrative and memory -- Notes -- Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation -- Introduction -- Narrative in cultural performance -- The stories and the evaluative data -- RP3 Cheltenham The belt sander accident -- SW4 Carmarthen The fat rugby player -- Mid6 Newtown The tipping tractor.

NW10 Blaenau Ffestiniog The strange motorcyclist -- Cardiff11 The pool table -- Evaluative profiles of the five speakers -- Performance demands for teenagers' stories -- Matching and missing performance demands -- Discussion -- Notes -- Masculinity, collaborative narration and the heterosexual couple -- Introductory -- The data -- Collaborative narration -- Storytelling as duet -- Alternative masculinities -- New men? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Contextualizing and recontextualizing interlaced stories in conversation -- Introduction -- Interlaced stories, response stories, and co-narration -- The data and context -- The two proposal stories -- THE PROPOSAL STORIES -- Retelling: The double engagement story -- THE DOUBLE ENGAGEMENT STORY -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Transcription conventions -- Hearing voices -- Introduction -- Friendship, gender and storytelling -- A male friendship, and an alcoholic's narratives -- Re-telling and recording the story, and its sequel -- The transcript -- Analysing the transcript -- Victimhood, identity, gender and narrative -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Modes of meaning making in young children's conversational storytelling -- Introduction -- Extract 1. Tarzan-part 11 -- Telling: Negotiating story entry and supporting fellow-tellers -- Extract 2. The Swimming Contest -- Extract 3. Pokémon in the Laundry -- Tales: The joint co-construction of imaginary worlds -- Extract 4. The Squirrels -- The discursive powers of imagination -- Extract 5. Pika: The true story -- Tellers: Negotiating issues of gender identity -- Extract 6. Tarzan (part b) -- Summary -- Appendix -- What a Terrible Horrible Dream -- Notes -- Two systems of mutual engagement -- Introduction -- Two Systems of Mutual Engagement -- Features of these girls' narrative engagement: -- Features of these boys' narrative engagement: -- Gender in language practices.

Method -- Results -- Basic measures -- Topic development -- Discourse examples -- Three-speaker integrated and coordinated talk -- Example 1. ``It's butter!'' (35 seconds) -- Example 2. ``I need to cut up my soup!'' (160 seconds) -- Boys' three speaker parallel talk -- Example 3. ``Hey, cheese!'' (108 seconds) -- Example 4. ``I'll be the doctor for a minute, ok?'' (90 seconds) -- Discussion -- Grounding -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Narrative and the construction of professional identity in the workplace -- Introduction -- The dataset -- Business talk -- Defining narrative: What counts as a `workplace anecdote'? -- Example 1.4 Near miss -- Example 2. -- Example 3. Christian and the cops -- Example 4. Ronny and the video -- Workplace anecdotes and professional identity -- Leila: Manager in a government department -- Example 5. The Flying Filing Squad -- Ginette: Manager in soap powder factory -- Example 6. David and the vacuum cleaner -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Transcription conventions -- Notes -- Telling stories and giving evidence -- Introduction -- The data -- Narrative vs. non-narrative discourse -- Narrative structures in courtroom discourse -- Textual features of narratives in trial language -- Opening statement narratives -- Extract 1 -- Extract 2 -- Extract 3 -- Extract 4 -- Extract 5 -- Extract 6 -- Narrative, non-narrative and hybridity as evidence -- Extract 7 -- Extract 8 -- Extract 9 -- Hybridisation and intermingling of evidence narratives -- Extract 10 -- Extract 11 -- Corroborating narratives as evidence -- Extract 12 -- Extract 13 -- Conclusions -- Note -- Television news and narrative -- Introduction -- Some textual features and principles of intelligibility of television news reports -- Tense -- Textual cohesion in television news reports: The interplay of the visual with the verbal.

Principles of intelligibility in TV news reports -- The intelligibility of television news reports: An example -- Conclusions: Narrative or commentary? -- Appendix -- Data and transcription -- Notes -- Performing theories of narrative -- Introduction -- Narrative politics -- Performativity -- Rewriting: Theory as narrative and intertextuality -- Micro-analysis and genre -- Micro-analysis and theory -- Genre and narrative -- References -- Index -- The series Studies in Narrative.