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Sharing stories or personal experiences in everyday§conversation may constitute the basis for all§storytelling activities including telling folk tales,§legends, fictive stories, or even writing novels,§plays, and films. This book analyzes first-person§narratives in the everyday interactions of speakers§of Japanese. Most of the data come from several§dozen hours of tape-recorded conversations. This§study discusses the thematic organization of the§stories, their social functions, and the use of tense§and aspect in narratives. It aims at establishing§the links between linguistic strategies, and§cognitive and contextual processes, as well as§testing the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural§validity of existing findings in narrative studies of§storytelling practices in English among other§languages. Thus, this book provides useful§information for students and specialists of tense and§aspect, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis,§narratology, cognitive linguistics, literary study,§as well as teachers of Japanese and English, and§anyone interested in storytelling and language.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics

• Full title: Conversational Storytelling
• Subtitle: A Study of Oral Narratives in Japanese
• Author: Shoko Kojima
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172
• EAN: 9783639159585
• ISBN: 3639159586
• ID: 06824405
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 259 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. June 2009

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