Analyzing narrative
Subtitle: discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives
By: Anna De Fina, Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Contributors: Georgakopoulou, Alexandra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521887168; 9780521715133
Subjects: Social aspects; Sociolingusitics; Narration (Rhetoric); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Discourse analysis
Description: "The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Narrative definitions, issues and approaches; 2. Narrative as text and structure; 3. Narrative and sociocultural variability; 4. Narrative interaction; 5. Narrative power, authority and ownership; 6. Narrative and identities.