Living Narrative - Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

book captures these complexities and fathoms the intricate and potent narratives that live within and among us.

Table des matières

Transcription Conventions 1. A Dimensional Approach to Narrative 2. Becoming a Narrator 3. Launching a Narrative 4. The Unexpected Turn 5. Experiential Logic 6. Beyond Face Value 7. Narrative as Theology 8. Untold Stories Notes References Index

A propos de l'auteur

Elinor Ochs is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lisa Capps was Assistant Professor of Psychology at Berkeley.

Résumé

This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon—a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lisa Capps, Capps Lisa, Elinor Ochs, Ochs Elinor
• Edition: University Presses
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.2002
• EAN: 9780674010109
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01010-9
• Poids: 490 g
• Illustrations: 21 line illustrations, 2 tables
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée; Linguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural anthropology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics