Narrative in English Conversation: A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521196987)

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 R hlemann 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, R hlemann 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.

Author: Christoph R?hlemann
ISBN-10: 0521196981
ISBN-13: 9780521196987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2014
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d