Danièle M. Klapproth: Narrative as Social Practice (2004)

[Julia Ulrich]

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Danièle M. Klapproth
NARRATIVE AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal Oral Traditions

August 2004. xiii, 472 pages.
Cloth. EUR 88.00 / sFr 141.00 / *US$ 88.00
ISBN 3-11-018136-3
Paperback. EUR 32.95 / sFr 53.00 / *US$ 32.95
ISBN 3-11-018137-1
(Language, Power and Social Process 13)

http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110181363-1&l=E


"Narrative as Social Practice" sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness of narrative and culture. It does so by contrasting the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures - Anglo-Western culture and the Central Australian culture of the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Aborigines. Combining discourse-analytical and pragmalinguistic methodologies with the perspectives of ethnopoetics and the ethnography of communication, this book presents a highly original and engaging study of storytelling as a vital communicative activity at the heart of socio-cultural life. The book is concerned with both theoretical and empirical issues. It engages critically with the theoretical framework of social constructivism and the notion of social practice, and it offers critical discussions of the most influential theories of narrative put forward in Western thinking. Arguing for the adoption of a communication-oriented and cross-cultural perspective as a prerequisite for improving our understanding of the cultural variability of narrative practice, Klapproth presents detailed textual analyses of Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal oral narratives, and contextualizes them with respect to the different storytelling practices, values and worldviews in both cultures. Narrative as Social Practice will offer new insights to students and specialists in the fields of narratology, discourse analysis, cross-cultural pragmatics, anthropology, folklore study, the ethnography of communication, and Australian Aboriginal studies. 

Danièle M. Klapproth is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Berne, Switzerland.


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