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Storytelling as Narrative Practice

Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell

Volume Editors: Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber

Telling stories is one of the fundamental things we do as humans.


Yet in scholarship, stories considered to be “traditional”, such as
myths, folk tales, and epics, have often been analyzed separately
from the narratives of personal experience that we all tell on a daily
basis. In Storytelling as Narrative Practice, editors Elizabeth Pages: x, 262 pp.
Falconi and Kathryn Graber argue that storytelling is best Language: English
understood by erasing this analytic divide. Chapter authors Subjects: Pragmatics &
carefully examine language use in-situ, drawing on in-depth Discourse Analysis, Languages
knowledge gained from long-term eldwork, to present rich and and Linguistics, Sociolinguistics,
nuanced analyses of storytelling-as-narrative-practice across a Languages and Linguistics,
diverse range of global contexts. Each chapter takes a holistic Sociology & Anthropology,
ethnographic approach to show the practices, processes, and Social Sciences, Global Studies,
social consequences of telling stories. Social Sciences, Multilingualism
& Language Contact, Languages
Readership
and Linguistics
Publisher: Brill
Scholars, university instructors, and anyone else interested in
narrative, storytelling, discourse, anthropological and Series: 
sociolinguistic approaches to language, linguistic and cultural Studies in Pragmatics, Volume: 19
heritage, identity formation, and pragmatics. Anthropology, E-Book (PDF)
linguistics, folklore, and rhetoric. Publication date: 08 Jul 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39393-6
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