Conversational Storytelling

ISBN-13: 9783639159585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 172 str.

Shoko Kojima

Opis

Sharing stories or personal experiences in everydayconversation may constitute the basis for allstorytelling activities including telling folk tales,legends, fictive stories, or even writing novels,plays, and films. This book analyzes first-personnarratives in the everyday interactions of speakersof Japanese. Most of the data come from severaldozen hours of tape-recorded conversations. Thisstudy discusses the thematic organization of thestories, their social functions, and the use of tenseand aspect in narratives. It aims at establishingthe links between linguistic strategies, andcognitive and contextual processes, as well astesting the cross-linguistic and cross-culturalvalidity of existing findings in narrative studies ofstorytelling practices in English among otherlanguages. Thus, this book provides usefulinformation for students and specialists of tense andaspect, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis,narratology, cognitive linguistics, literary study,as well as teachers of Japanese and English, andanyone interested in storytelling and language.

O autorze

Shoko Kojima received her Ph.D. in linguistics from New York
University. She is currently lecturer of English at St.Paul's
University, Aoyama Gakuin University, and Nihon University in
Tokyo. Dr.Kojima has co-authored several college textbooks on
the English language.