Telling stories language, narrative, and social life / Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund, editors.

SeriesGeorgetown University Round Table on languages and linguistics series
Contents Introduction / Deborah Schiffrin and Anna De Fina -- Where Should I begin? / William Labov -- The remediation of storytelling : Narrative performance on early commercial sound recordings / Richard Bauman -- Narrative, culture, and mind / Jerome Bruner -- Positioning as a metagrammar for discursive story lines / Rom Harré -- "Ay ay vienen estos juareños?" : on the positioning of selves through code switching by second-generation immigrant college students / Alan D. Hansen ...[et al.] -- A tripartite self-construction model of identity / Leor Cohen -- Narratives of reputation : layerings of social and spatial identities / Gabriella Modan and Amy Shuman -- Identity building through narratives on a Tulu call-in TV show / Malavika Shetty -- Blank check for biography? : openness and ingenuity in the management of the "who-am-I-question" and what life stories actually may not be good for / Michael Bamberg -- Reflection and self-disclosure from the small stories perspective : a study of identity claims in interview and conversational data / Alexandra Georgakopoulou -- Negotiating deviance : identity, trajectories, and norms in a graffitist's interview narrative / Jarmila Mildorf -- Interaction and narrative structure in dementia / Lars Christer Hydén and Linda Örulv -- Concurrent and intervening actions during storytelling in family "ceremonial" dinners / Jenny Mandelbaum -- Truth and authorship in textual trajectories / Isolda E. Carranza -- Legitimation and the heteroglossic nature of closing arguments / Laura Felton Rosulek -- Multimodal storytelling and identity construction in graphic narratives / David Herman -- The role of style-shifting in the functions and purposes of storytelling : detective stories in anime / Fumiko Nazikian.
General notePapers based on those presented at the 2008 Georgetown University Round Table On Languages and Linguistics (GURT).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009024105
ISBN9781589016293 (pbk. : alk. paper)