Direct Speech, Self-Presentation and Communities of Practice

ISBN-13: 9781441123848 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Sofia Lampropoulou

Opis

This book deals with speech representation in
Greek adolescents' storytelling and investigates how members of different
communities of practice present themselves and other characters as
interactional protagonists through the stories they tell. The work puts forth a
dynamic approach that examines (direct) speech representation at the local and
the broader socio-cultural context in which it is embedded. The concept of
community of practice accounts for direct speech variation, and direct speech
is seen as the linguistic manifestation of shared repertoire of particular
communities of practice. The book combines qualitative with quantitative
methods of study and brings together relevant theories of speech
representation, narrative analysis and self-presentation.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements List of tables List of abbreviations Transcription conventions Introduction Chapter 1: Speech Representation and Direct Speech Chapter 2: Narrative and Self-presentation Chapter 3: Data and Methods Chapter 4: Distributions, Frequencies and Factors Affecting Direct Speech Variation Chapter 5: Voice Representation, Gender and Dominant Discourses Chapter 6: Self-presentation Chapter 7: Self through Other-presentation Overview and Conclusions Appendix References Index