Storytelling Rights The Uses of Oral and Written Texts By Urban Adolescents

Klappentext Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school! this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events! diaries! writings and discussions. Zusammenfassung Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school! this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events! diaries! writings and discussions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Fight stories: what counts is the recounting; 2. Storyability and tellability; 3. Collaborative uses of literacy in the adolescent community; 4. Retellings; 5. Varieties of contextuality; 6. Familiarity and distance: toward a theory of oral and written personal narration; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Ruth H. Finnegan (Editore), Peter Burke (Editore)
• Autori: Amy Shuman
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 02.11.2006
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata
• EAN: 9780521030045
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03004-5
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture; Cambridge Studies in Oral and > 11