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Storytelling is a universal human activity and oral narration -- particularly modern 'conversational' narration such as anecdotes or personal stories -- has long been fertile ground for linguists working on tense usage across a variety of languages. This book introduces 'performed' oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French to explore the narrative tenses attested, the discourse-pragmatic effects of tense switching, the structures deployed at points of temporal sequence, as well as broader questions concerning the nature of oral...

A majority of the chapters in this book were originally presented as papers at a conference held at Queen s University Belfast in September 2006. The volume explores the oral-written dynamic in the conte francais/francophone, focusing on key aspects of the relationship between oral and written forms of the conte. The chapters fall into four broad thematic areas (the oral-written dynamic in early modern France; literary appropriations and transformations; postcolonial contexts; storytelling in contemporary France: linguistic strategies). Within these broad areas, some chapters...