27.302, Books: Narrative in English Conversation: Rühlemann

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:29:23
From: Katie Laker [klaker at cambridge.org]
Subject: Narrative in English Conversation: Rühlemann

 


Title: Narrative in English Conversation 
Subtitle: A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/narrative-english-conversation-corpus-analysis-storytelling?format=PB 


Author: Christoph Rühlemann

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107595750 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 38.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107595750 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99


Abstract:

Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based
upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring
narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the
NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that
allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale
quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients collaborate in
storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using R, a programming language
and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Using this unique data
and methodological base, Rühlemann reveals new insights, including the
discovery of turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first
investigation of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how
speech reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance level,
and the identification of the story climax as the sequential context in which
recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.

Introduction; 1. Towards a working definition of conversational narrative; 2.
Data, methodology, and tools; 3. How do narrators and recipients co-construct
turntaking?; 4. Recipient design I: how do narrators mark discourse
presentation?; 5. Recipient design II: how do narrators use discourse
presentation for dramatization?; 6. How do recipients co-author stories?; 7.
Summary, conclusions and directions for future research; Appendix 1; Appendix
2; Appendix 3.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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