Analyzing Narrative - Discourse and Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Anna De Fina is an Associate Professor in the Department of Italian at Georgetown University. Alexandra Georgakopoulou is a Professor in the Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Department at King's College London. Klappentext The first general overview of narrative analysis from a sociolinguistic perspective. Zusammenfassung The linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this 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 narrative language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Anna De Fina, Anna (Georgetown University De Fina, Anna Georgakopoulou De Fina, De Fina Anna, Anna de Fina, Anna De Georgakopoulou Fina, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Alexandra (King's College London) Georgakopoulou, Georgakopoulou Alexandra
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2011
• EAN: 9780521887168
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88716-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc