Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1589016297 ISBN 13: 9781589016293

Casa editrice: Georgetown Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal levels. It is because of this deep embedding of narrative in everyday life that its study has become a wide research field including disciplines as diverse as linguistics, literary theory, folklore, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and history.

In Telling Stories leading scholars illustrate how narratives build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and culture; and they investigate various settings such as therapeutic and medical encounters, educational environments, politics, media, marketing, and public relations. They analyze a variety of topics from the narrative construction of self and identity to the telling of stories in different media and the roles that small and big life stories play in everyday social interactions and institutions. These new reflections on the theory and analysis of narrative offer the latest tools to researchers in the fields of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

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L'autore:

Deborah Schiffrin is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author ofIn Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative.

Anna De Fina is an associate professor in the Department of Italian at Georgetown University. She is the author ofIdentity in Narrative: A Study of Immigrant Discourse.

Anastasia Nylund is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

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• Editore: Georgetown Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1589016297
• ISBN 13: 9781589016293
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 219
• Redattore: Schiffrin Deborah, De Fina Anna, Nylund Anastasia