Telling the American Story - A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling

This book explores the complexity of story text. Its thesis is that one can elicit the world view of a people from a close structural analysis of their narrative discourse. It is the first methodological explanation of how stories can be used as a source of cultural data and an illustration of how to do a rhetorically close analysis of a story text. A theory of narrative structure is presented which leads to a conversationally based definition of what can properly be called a story.

Product details

• Authors: Livia Polanyi
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1985
• EAN: 9780893910419
• ISBN: 978-0-89391-041-9
• No. of pages: 172
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Language and Being
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Cultural Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, The arts, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc