Narrative in English Conversation: A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling

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Cambridge University Press

Publication date:

18 December 2013

09 January 2014

ISBN:

9781139026987

9780521196987

9781107595750

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026987

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This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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Dimensions:

(228 x 152 mm)

Weight & Pages:

0.57kg, 304 Pages

Dimensions:

(229 x 152 mm)

Weight & Pages:

0.46kg, 308 Pages

Subjects:: Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
Series:: Studies in English Language

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Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base, Rühlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

‘Rühlemann's book is a rare gem in the study of conversational narrative. It is based on a corpus specifically compiled for this study, breaks new ground with sophisticated computational and statistical tools, and is full of astute observations and qualitative interpretation. No scholar of narratives will want to miss this.'

Stefan Th. Gries - University of California, Santa Barbara

‘This book offers an excellent example of how to do significant original work on conversational narrative through the inventive development and use of corpus data. It demonstrates how sophisticated computer methods combine with intelligent hypothesis formulation to yield significant insights on conversational storytelling as an interactional achievement.'

Neal Norrick - Saarland University

‘Rühlemann's work brings together in a timely fashion the best of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Exploiting the explanatory power of a large, carefully annotated specialised corpus, it breaks new ground in spoken corpus analysis by uncovering the delicate interweaving of speakers and listeners as they jointly construct their worlds.'

Mike McCarthy - University of Nottingham

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-ix

Figures
pp x-xi

Tables
pp xii-xiii

Acknowledgements
pp xiv-xv

List of tags
pp xvi-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-3

1 - Towards a working definition of conversational narrative
pp 4-39

2 - Data, methods, and tools
pp 40-75

3 - How do narrators and recipients co-construct turntaking?
pp 76-109

4 - Recipient design I: How do narrators mark quotation?
pp 110-154

5 - Recipient design II: How do narrators use discourse presentation for dramatization?
pp 155-172

6 - How do recipients co-author stories?
pp 173-217

7 - Conclusions and implications
pp 218-231

Appendix 1
pp 232-236

Appendix 2
pp 237-238

Appendix 3
pp 239-241

Appendix 4
pp 242-245

Notes to the text
pp 246-273

References
pp 274-286

Index
pp 287-288

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